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Canonical curves and Kropina metrics in Lagrangian contact geometry

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Published 5 December 2023 © 2023 IOP Publishing Ltd & London Mathematical Society
, , Citation Tianyu Ma et al 2024 Nonlinearity 37 015007 DOI 10.1088/1361-6544/ad0c2b

0951-7715/37/1/015007

Abstract

We present a Fefferman-type construction from Lagrangian contact to split-signature conformal structures and examine several related topics. In particular, we describe the canonical curves and their correspondence. We show that chains and null-chains of an integrable Lagrangian contact structure are the projections of null-geodesics of the Fefferman space. Employing the Fermat principle, we realize chains as geodesics of Kropina (pseudo-Finsler) metrics. Using recent rigidity results, we show that 'sufficiently many' chains determine the Lagrangian contact structure. Separately, we comment on Lagrangian contact structures induced by projective structures and the special case of dimension three.

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