Geodesic reduction via frame bundle geometry

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2010.020zbMATH Open1189.53013arXiv1002.4156MaRDI QIDQ970335FDOQ970335

Authors: Ajit Bhand 

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A manifold with an arbitrary affine connection is considered and the geodesic spray associated with the connection is studied in the presence of a Lie group action. In particular, results are obtained that provide insight into the structure of the reduced dynamics associated with the given invariant affine connection. The geometry of the frame bundle of the given manifold is used to provide an intrinsic description of the geodesic spray. A fundamental relationship between the geodesic spray, the tangent lift and the vertical lift of the symmetric product is obtained, which provides a key to understanding reduction in this formulation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4156

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zbMATH Keywords

reductionlinear frame bundlegeodesic sprayaffine connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19)

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