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The geodesic spray is a well-defined smooth vector field on TM

Statement

Assume ACω. The local geodesic-spray formulas agree on overlaps and define a smooth vector field S on TM. Its integral curves are exactly the velocity lifts t↦(γ(t),γ′(t)) of affinely parametrized geodesics.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Two overlapping base charts x=(xi) and y=(ya), with induced fibre coordinates vi and wa.

[F1]

The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω) names the assumed ACω, and Geodesic spray gives the chartwise spray formula whose overlap agreement is to be proved here.

[F2]

Christoffel symbol transformation law gives the inhomogeneous transformation rule for the two Christoffel arrays.

[F3]

Coordinate geodesic equation characterizes geodesics by x˙k=vk and v˙k=−Γkijvivj.

Proof

1.1F2givenalgebra

On the overlap, wa=(∂ya/∂xi)vi. Along a local integral curve of the x-formula, differentiation gives y˙a=∂ya∂xivi=wa, and w˙c=∂2yc∂xi∂xjvivj−∂yc∂xkΓkijvivj. Differentiating the inverse-coordinate identity twice gives ∂2yc∂xi∂xj+∂yc∂xk∂2xk∂ya∂yb∂ya∂xi∂yb∂xj=0. Inserting this and [F2] yields w˙c=−Γ~cabwawb, exactly the y-formula.

2.1F1step 1.1

Step 1.1 is the tangent-coordinate transformation law for the local vector fields, so the formulas glue to one vector field on TM. Their coordinate components are smooth by [F1], hence the glued field is smooth.

3.1F1F3step 1.1step 2.1∎

If (x(t),v(t)) is an integral curve, its first component equation says vi=x˙i and its second says x¨k+Γkijx˙ix˙j=0; [F3] therefore makes x(t) a geodesic and (x,v) its velocity lift. Conversely, a geodesic and its velocity satisfy those two equations by [F3], so its lift is an integral curve. At v=0 the lift is stationary; dimensions zero and one reduce respectively to the empty system and the scalar calculation, and the empty bundle is harmless. Parameter endpoints are local and one-sided where included. No choice occurs in the overlap calculation; ACω remains the explicit hypothesis inherited from [F1].

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