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Symmetries of sprays and admissible Lagrangians

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New Developments in Differential Geometry

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Some fundamental concepts and basic facts are summarized first for convenience and in order to fix the terminology, also to do slight adjustments of some standard concepts with respect to their subsequent applications. Smooth will mean class C°° in what follows.

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  1. Department of Geometry, Eötvös University, Rákóczi út 5, Budapest, H-1088, Hungary

    J. Szenthe

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary

    L. Tamássy

  2. Department of Geometry, Lóránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    J. Szenthe

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Szenthe, J. (1996). Symmetries of sprays and admissible Lagrangians. In: Tamássy, L., Szenthe, J. (eds) New Developments in Differential Geometry. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 350. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0149-0_31

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