the geometry of a system of second order differential equations is the geometry of a semispray, which is a globally defined vector field on tm. the metrizability of a given semispray is of special importance. in this paper, the metric associated with the semispray s is applied in order to study some types of foliations on the tangent bundle which are compatible with sode structure. indeed, suff...

Adopting the pullback approach to Finsler geometry, the aim of the present paper is to provide new intrinsic (coordinate-free) proofs of intrinsic versions of the existence and uniqueness theorems for the Cartan and Berwald connections on a Finsler manifold. To accomplish this, the notions of semispray and nonlinear connection associated with a given regular connection, in the pullback bundle, ...

the geometry of a system of second order differential equations is the geometry of a semispray, which is a globally defined vector field on tm. the metrizability of a given semispray is of special importance. in this paper, the metric associated with the semispray s is applied in order to study some types of foliations on the tangent bundle which are compatible with sode structure. indeed, suff...

The geometry of a system of second order differential equations is the geometry of a semispray, which is a globally defined vector field on TM. The metrizability of a given semispray is of special importance. In this paper, the metric associated with the semispray S is applied in order to study some types of foliations on the tangent bundle which are compatible with SODE structure. Indeed, suff...

Adopting the pullback approach to Finsler geometry, the aim of the present paper is to provide intrinsic (coordinate-free) proofs of the existence and uniqueness theorems for the Chern (Rund) and Hashiguchi connections on a Finsler manifold. To accomplish this, we introduce and investigate the notions of semispray and nonlinear connection associated with a given regular connection, in the pullb...

given a pair (semispray $s$, metric $g$) on a tangent bundle, the family of nonlinear connections $n$ such that $g$ is recurrent with respect to $(s, n)$ with a fixed recurrent factor is determined by using the obata tensors. in particular, we obtain a characterization for a pair $(n, g)$ to be recurrent as well as for the triple $(s, stackrel{c}{n}, g)$ where $stackrel{c}{n}$ is the canonical ...

Given a pair (semispray $S$, metric $g$) on a tangent bundle, the family of nonlinear connections $N$ such that $g$ is recurrent with respect to $(S, N)$ with a fixed recurrent factor is determined by using the Obata tensors. In particular, we obtain a characterization for a pair $(N, g)$ to be recurrent as well as for the triple $(S, stackrel{c}{N}, g)$ where $stackrel{c}{N}$ is the canonical ...

The paper is devoted to the geometrical theory, on the phase space, of the classical concept of scleronomic Riemannian mechanical systems in the general case when the external forces depend on the material points and their velocities. We discuss the canonical semispray, the nonlinear connection, the metrical connection, the electromagnetic field and the almost Hermitian model of the mentioned m...

We consider the category of anchored Banach vector bundles and we discuss the notion of semispray. Adding on the set of sections of an anchored Banach vector bundle a Lie bracket with some properties one gets the notion of Lie algebroid. We prove that the Lie algebroids form also a category. A Dirac structure on a Banach manifold M is defined as a subbundle of the big tangent bundle TM ⊕ T ∗M t...