Geodesic fields for Pontryagin type C0-Finsler manifolds

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Abstract: Let M be a differentiable manifold, TxM be its tangent space at xinM and TM=(x,y);xinM;yinTxM be its tangent bundle. A C0-Finsler structure is a continuous function F:TMightarrowmathbb[0,infty) such that F(x,cdot):TxMightarrow[0,infty) is an asymmetric norm. In this work we introduce the Pontryagin type C0-Finsler structures, which are structures that satisfy the minimum requirements of Pontryagin's maximum principle for the problem of minimizing paths. We define the extended geodesic field mathcalE on the slit cotangent bundle of (M,F), which is a generalization of the geodesic spray of Finsler geometry. We study the case where mathcalE is a locally Lipschitz vector field. We show some examples where the geodesics are more naturally represented by mathcalE than by a similar structure on TM. Finally we show that the maximum of independent Finsler structures is a Pontryagin type C0-Finsler structure where mathcalE is a locally Lipschitz vector field.




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