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| In [[Riemannian geometry]], a branch of [[mathematics]], the '''unit tangent bundle''' of a [[Riemannian manifold]] (''M'', ''g''), denoted by UT(''M'') or simply UT''M'', is the unit sphere bundle for the [[tangent bundle]] T(''M''). It is a [[fiber bundle]] over ''M'' whose fiber at each point is the [[unit sphere]] in the tangent bundle:
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| :<math>\mathrm{UT} (M) := \coprod_{x \in M} \left\{ v \in \mathrm{T}_{x} (M) \left| g_x(v,v) = 1 \right. \right\},</math>
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| where T<sub>''x''</sub>(''M'') denotes the [[tangent space]] to ''M'' at ''x''. Thus, elements of UT(''M'') are pairs (''x'', ''v''), where ''x'' is some point of the manifold and ''v'' is some tangent direction (of unit length) to the manifold at ''x''. The unit tangent bundle is equipped with a natural [[projection (mathematics)|projection]]
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| :<math>\pi : \mathrm{UT} (M) \to M,</math>
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| :<math>\pi : (x, v) \mapsto x,</math>
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| which takes each point of the bundle to its base point. The fiber ''π''<sup>−1</sup>(''x'') over each point ''x'' ∈ ''M'' is an (''n''−1)-[[hypersphere|sphere]] '''S'''<sup>''n''−1</sup>, where ''n'' is the dimension of ''M''. The unit tangent bundle is therefore a [[fiber bundle#Sphere bundles|sphere bundle]] over ''M'' with fiber '''S'''<sup>''n''−1</sup>.
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| The definition of unit sphere bundle can easily accommodate [[Finsler manifold]]s as well. Specifically, if ''M'' is a manifold equipped with a Finsler metric ''F'' : T''M'' → '''R''', then the unit sphere bundle is the subbundle of the tangent bundle whose fiber at ''x'' is the indicatrix of ''F'':
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| :<math>\mathrm{UT}_x (M) = \left\{ v \in \mathrm{T}_{x} (M) \left| F(v) = 1 \right. \right\}.</math>
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| If ''M'' is an infinite-dimensional manifold (for example, a [[Banach manifold|Banach]], [[Fréchet manifold|Fréchet]] or [[Hilbert manifold]]), then UT(''M'') can still be thought of as the unit sphere bundle for the tangent bundle T(''M''), but the fiber ''π''<sup>−1</sup>(''x'') over ''x'' is then the infinite-dimensional unit sphere in the tangent space.
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| ==Structures==
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| The unit tangent bundle carries a variety of differential geometric structures. The metric on ''M'' induces a [[contact structure]] on UT''M''. This is given in terms of a tautological one-form θ, defined at a point ''u'' of UT''M'' (a unit tangent vector of ''M'') by
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| :<math>\theta_u(v) = g(u,\pi_* v)\,</math> | |
| where π<sub>*</sub> is the [[pushforward (differential)|pushforward]] along π of the vector ''v'' ∈ T<sub>''u''</sub>UT''M''.
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| Geometrically, this contact structure can be regarded as the distribution of (2''n''−2)-planes which, at the unit vector ''u'', is the pullback of the orthogonal complement of ''u'' in the tangent space of ''M''. This is a contact structure, for the fiber of UT''M'' is obviously an integral manifold (the vertical bundle is everywhere in the kernel of θ), and the remaining tangent directions are filled out by moving up the fiber of UT''M''. Thus the maximal integral manifold of θ is (an open set of) ''M'' itself.
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| On a Finsler manifold, the contact form is defined by the analogous formula
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| :<math>\theta_u(v) = g_u(u,\pi_*v)\,</math>
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| where ''g''<sub>''u''</sub> is the fundamental tensor (the [[Hessian matrix|hessian]] of the Finsler metric). Geometrically, the associated distribution of hyperplanes at the point ''u'' ∈ UT<sub>''x''</sub>''M'' is the inverse image under π<sub>*</sub> of the tangent hyperplane to the unit sphere in T<sub>''x''</sub>''M'' at ''u''.
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| The [[volume form]] θ∧''d''θ<sup>''n''−1</sup> defines a [[measure (mathematics)|measure]] on ''M'', known as the '''kinematic measure''', or '''Liouville measure''', that is invariant under the [[geodesic#Geodesic flow|geodesic flow]] of ''M''. As a [[Radon measure]], the kinematic measure μ is defined on compactly supported continuous functions ''ƒ'' on UT''M'' by
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| :<math>\int_{UTM} f\,d\mu = \int_M dV(p) \int_{UT_pM} \left.f\right|_{UT_pM}\,d\mu_p</math>
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| where d''V'' is the [[volume element]] on ''M'', and μ<sub>''p''</sub> is the standard rotationally-invariant [[Borel measure]] on the Euclidean sphere UT<sub>''p''</sub>''M''.
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| The [[Levi-Civita connection]] of ''M'' gives rise to a splitting of the tangent bundle
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| :<math>T(UTM) = H\oplus V</math>
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| into a vertical space ''V'' = kerπ<sub>*</sub> and horizontal space ''H'' on which π<sub>*</sub> is a [[linear isomorphism]] at each point of UT''M''. This splitting induces a metric on UT''M'' by declaring that this splitting be an orthogonal direct sum, and defining the metric on ''H'' by the pullback:
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| :<math>g_H(v,w) = g(v,w),\quad v,w\in H</math>
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| and defining the metric on ''V'' as the induced metric from the embedding of the fiber UT<sub>''x''</sub>''M'' into the [[Euclidean space]] T<sub>''x''</sub>''M''. Equipped with this metric and contact form, UT''M'' becomes a [[Sasakian manifold]].
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Unit Tangent Bundle}}
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