Sprays and Dirac Structures

Abstract

We look at the the possibility of a spray having a Hamiltonian description considering Dirac structure as underlying geometric structure. In a simpler scenario, we consider almost Dirac structure as an auxiliary object to find constants of motion for sprays. Staring with the horizontal distribution associated to a spray, we use gauge transformations generated by two forms in order to obtain constants of motion and possible Hamiltonian description. We also apply our approach to semi-spray with some modifications.