Geodesics on path spaces and double category

DOI10.1142/S0219887815501285MaRDI QIDQ5744175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Saikat Chatterjee

Publication date 17 February 2016

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4179

zbMATH Keywords

back-track equivalencedouble categorygeodesicsnormal neighborhoodpath space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold and $mathcalPM$ be the space of all smooth paths on $M$. We describe geodesics on path space $mathcalPM$. Normal neighbourhood structure on $mathcalPM$ has been discussed. We identify paths on $M$ under "back-track" equivalence. Under this identification we show that if $M$ is complete, then geodesics on path space yield a double category.We gave a physical interpretation of this double category.

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