When is a vector field injective?

DOI10.1007/S000300050053MaRDI QIDQ1265575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Franco Cardin, Marco Favretti

Publication date 2 January 2000

Published in NoDEA. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000300050053, http://hdl.handle.net/11577/2464480

zbMATH Keywords

complete lift of metricconvex subsets of Riemannian manifoldsinjective vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a smooth manifold with Riemannian metric \(g\) and \(U\) an open and \(g\)-convex subset of \(M\). A vector field \(X:U\to TM\) is called \(g\)-injective if, after parallel transport along the unique geodesic in \(U\) joining \(x,y\in U\), \(X_x\neq X_y\) for \(x\neq y\). The main result of the paper is that a sufficient condition for this is the definiteness of the covariant derivative of \(X\) (a section of the endomorphism bundle of \(TU\)). The authors show by examples that these notions depend on the metric, even in a given conformal class. They study the relation to the same question asked on \(TM\) equipped with the complete lift of the metric on \(M\).

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