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The Jacobi flow

Peter W. Michor

math.DGarXiv:math/9611223

Abstract

The geodesic flow on the tangent bundle is the flow of a certain vector field which is called the spray S:TM TTM. The flow lines of the vector field TMøTS:TTM TTTM project to the Jacobi fields on TM. This could be called the Jacobi flow.

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