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The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and for the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It mayis not bealways Lagrangian for general sprays though.

In the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in my answer to When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it . You can complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and for the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It may not be Lagrangian for general sprays though.

In the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in my answer to When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it . You can complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and for the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It is not always Lagrangian for general sprays though.

In the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in my answer to When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it . You can complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

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The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and for the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It may not be Lagrangian for general sprays though.

In the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in my answer to When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it and. You can complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It may not be Lagrangian for general sprays though.

In the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it and complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and for the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It may not be Lagrangian for general sprays though.

In the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in my answer to When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it . You can complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

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The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It may not be Lagrangian for general sprays though.

SeeIn the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it and complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It may not be Lagrangian for general sprays though.

See my answer to this question Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

The distribution of horizontal subspaces is always Lagrangian not only for Riemannian metrics, but also for the Ehresmann connection associated to Finsler metrics and the Levi-Civita connection of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. It may not be Lagrangian for general sprays though.

In the Riemannian case this is classical (see Klingenberg's book on Riemannian Geometry or Paternain's book on geodesic flows), but you can also see my answer to this question: Intuition for Levi-Civita connection via Hamiltonian flows

There is a much more elementary and geometric version of the construction of the connection given in When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it and complete it by proving (it's really easy!) that the harmonic conjugate---as defined in the answer---of three Lagrangian subspaces is again a Lagrangian subspace.

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