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Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Mat., 2013 Number 4, Pages 10–18 (Mi ivm8788)

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Connections over a distribution and geodesic sprays

A. V. Bukusheva, S. V. Galaev

Chair of Geometry, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia

Abstract: We define (in a natural way) an almost contact metric structure on a smooth distribution of a contact metric manifold considered as the total space of a vector bundle. We introduce notions of a geodesic spray of a connection over a smooth distribution and of a generalized Hamiltonian system. In terms of this system we give an invariant description of the motion of a mechanical system with constraints.

Keywords: contact structure, Hamiltonian vector field, Reeb vector field, semispray, geodesic spray, symplectic structure.

UDC: 514.764

Received: 08.11.2011


 English version:
Russian Mathematics (Izvestiya VUZ. Matematika), 2013, 57:4, 7–13

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