a cartan manifold is a smooth manifold m whose slit cotangent bundle 0t *m is endowed with a regularhamiltonian k which is positively homogeneous of degree 2 in momenta. the hamiltonian k defines a (pseudo)-riemannian metric ij g in the vertical bundle over 0 t *m and using it, a sasaki type metric on 0 t *m is constructed. a natural almost complex structure is also defined by k on 0 t *m in su...