Canonical curves and Kropina metrics in Lagrangian contact geometry
Authors
MA, Tianyu, Keegan Jonathan FLOOD (840 United States of America, belonging to the institution), Vladimir S MATVEEV and Vojtěch ŽÁDNÍK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
We present a Fefferman-type construction from Lagrangian contact to split-signature conformal structures and examine several related topics. In particular, we describe the canonical curves and their correspondence. We show that chains and null-chains of an integrable Lagrangian contact structure are the projections of null-geodesics of the Fefferman space. Employing the Fermat principle, we realize chains as geodesics of Kropina (pseudo-Finsler) metrics. Using recent rigidity results, we show that 'sufficiently many' chains determine the Lagrangian contact structure. Separately, we comment on Lagrangian contact structures induced by projective structures and the special case of dimension three.
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GA20-11473S, research and development project
Name: Symetrie a invariance v analýze, geometrickém modelování a teorii optimálního řízení
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
8J20DE004, research and development project
Name: Variacizace význačných křivek v Cartanově geometrii (Acronym: VVKCG)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Germany