Lagrange Geometries on Tangent Manifolds

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Lagrange geometry is the geometry of the tensor field defined by the fiberwise Hessian of a non degenerate Lagrangian function on the total space of a tangent bundle. Finsler geometry is the geometrically most interesting case of Lagrange geometry. In this paper we study a generalization, which consists of replacing the tangent bundle by a general tangent manifold, and the Lagrangian by a family of compatible, local, Lagrangian functions. We give several examples, and find the cohomological obstractions to globalization. Then, we extend the connections used in Finsler and Lagrange geometry, while giving an index free presentation of these connections.
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Differential Geometry, 53C15;53C60

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/65896

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212080
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