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On geodesic equivalence of Riemannian metrics and sub-Riemannian metrics on distributions of corank 1

TitleOn geodesic equivalence of Riemannian metrics and sub-Riemannian metrics on distributions of corank 1
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsZelenko, I
JournalJ. Math. Sci. 135 (2006) 3168-3194
Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the problem of (local) geodesic equivalence of Riemannian metrics and sub-Riemannian metrics on generic corank 1 distributions. Using Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we treat Riemannian and sub-Riemannian cases in an unified way and obtain some algebraic necessary conditions for the geodesic equivalence of (sub-)Riemannian metrics. In this way first we obtain a new elementary proof of classical Levi-Civita\\\'s Theorem about the classification of all Riemannian geodesically equivalent metrics in a neighborhood of so-called regular (stable) point w.r.t. these metrics. Secondly we prove that sub-Riemannian metrics on contact distributions are geodesically equivalent iff they are constantly proportional. Then we describe all geodesically equivalent sub-Riemannian metrics on quasi-contact distributions. Finally we make the classification of all pairs of geodesically equivalent Riemannian metrics on a surface, which proportional in an isolated point. This is the simplest case, which was not covered by Levi-Civita\\\'s Theorem.

URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/2205
DOI10.1007/s10958-006-0151-5

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