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In the mathematical fields of the calculus of variations and differential geometry, the variational vector field is a certain type of vector field defined on the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold which gives rise to variations along a vector field in the manifold itself.
Specifically, let X be a vector field on M. Then X generates a one-parameter group of local diffeomorphisms FlXt, the flow along X. The differential of FlXt gives, for each t, a mapping
d F l X t : T M → T M {\displaystyle d\mathrm {Fl} _{X}^{t}:TM\to TM}where TM denotes the tangent bundle of M. This is a one-parameter group of local diffeomorphisms of the tangent bundle. The variational vector field of X, denoted by T(X) is the tangent to the flow of d FlXt.
- Shlomo Sternberg (1964). Lectures on differential geometry. Prentice-Hall. pp. 96.