Dergiler / Turkish Journal of Mathematics / 2001 / Cilt: 25 - Sayı: 4

Diagonal Lift in the Cotangent Bundle and its Applications

Sayfa
491–502
DOI
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Özet

The purpose of this paper is to define a diagonal lift \mathcal{D }g of a Riemannian metric g of a manifold Mn to the cotangent bundle T*(Mn) of Mn, to associate with \mathcal{D}g an Levi-Civita connection of T*(Mn) in a natural way and to investigate applications of the diagonal lifts.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to define a diagonal lift \mathcal{D }g of a Riemannian metric g of a manifold Mn to the cotangent bundle T*(Mn) of Mn, to associate with \mathcal{D}g an Levi-Civita connection of T*(Mn) in a natural way and to investigate applications of the diagonal lifts.

Anahtar kelimeler: Cotangent bundle, Riemannian metric, diagonal lift, Levi-Civita connection, B-manifold, Killing vector field, geodesic.