scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2135035

Publication date 18 February 2005

Finslerian metrics in the higher-order differential geometry homogeneous prolongations Sasaki-Matsumoto \(N\)-lift

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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The Sasaki-Matsumoto \(N\)-lift of the Riemannian metric tensor \(g_{ab}(x)\) into \(T^{k}M\) is known. In the adapted basis \(B^{*} = \{ dx^{a},\delta y^{1a},\delta y^{2a},\ldots ,\delta y^{ka}\} \) it has the form \[ G = g_{ab}(x)dx^{a} \otimes dx^{b}+\sum ^{k}_{\beta =1} g_{ab}(x)\delta y^{\beta a}\delta y^{\beta b} . \] If \(g_{ab}(x)\) is substituted by \(g_{ab}(x,y^{1})\) then we obtain the Sasaki-Matsumoto \(N\)-lift of the Finsler metric \(g_{ab}(x,y^{1})\). These prolongations are not homogeneous with respect to \[ h_{t} : (x,y^{1},\ldots ,y^{k}) \rightarrow (x,ty^{1},\ldots ,t^{k}y^{k}) , \quad t\in \mathbb R^{+} . \] In this paper the homogeneous prolongation of Finsler metric is given by \[ G = g_{ab}(x,y^{1})dx^{a}\otimes dx^{b}+\sum ^{k}_{\beta =1} \frac{c^{2\beta }}{\| y^{1} \| ^{2\beta }} g_{ab} (x,y^{1}) \delta y^{\beta a}\delta y^{\beta b}, \quad c\text{ a constant} \] and \[ \| y^{1} \| ^{2} = g_{ab} (x,y^{1}) y^{1a}y^{1b} . \] The homogeneous prolongation of Riemannian metric is obtained if in the above relation \(g_{ab}(x,y^{1})\) is substituted by \(g_{ab}(x)\). The metrical \(N\)-linear connection coefficients for these homogeneous prolonged metric tensors are constructed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1047.53001].

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