An Almost-Poisson Structure for Autoparallels on Riemann-Cartan Spacetime

An almost-Poisson bracket is constructed for the regular Hamiltonian formulation of autoparallels on Riemann-Cartan spacetime, which is considered to be the motion trajectory of spinless particles in the space. This bracket satisfies the usual properties of a Poisson bracket except for the Jacobi identity. There does not exist a usual Poisson structure for the system although a special Lagrangian can be found for the case that the contracted torsion tensor is a gradient of a scalar field and the traceless part is zero. The almost-Poisson bracket is decomposed into a sum of the usual Poisson bracket and a “Lie-Poisson”bracket, which is applied to obtain a formula for the Jacobiizer and to decompose a non-Hamiltonian dynamical vector field for the system. The almost-Poisson structure is also globally formulated by means of a pseudo-symplectic two-form on the cotangent bundle to the spacetime manifold.