Symplectic geometry and Hilbert's fourth problem

DOI10.4310/JDG/1121449109MaRDI QIDQ814650zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. C. Álvarez Paiva

Publication date 7 February 2006

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1121449109

zbMATH Keywords

admissible symplectic formanti-symplectic involutioncontact structureG-spaceLagrangian immersionLegendre transformLegendrian fibrationLegendrian immersionoriented geodesicpathprojective Finsler metricspace of geodesicsspace of oriented linessymplectic formsymplectic submanifoldtametotally geodesic submanifold.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Special maps on metric spaces (54E40)

Review text

The paper under review provides a new characterization of projective Finsler metrics in terms of a class of symplectic forms on the space of lines.

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