On locally dually flat \((\alpha ,\beta )\)-metrics (Q531739): Difference between revisions

A Finsler metric \(F=F(x,y)\) on an \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) is called locally dually flat if at every point there is a coordinate system \((x^i)\) in which the spray coefficients have the form \(G^i=-\frac 12g^{ij}H_{y^j}\), where \(H=H(x,y)\) is a local scalar function on the tangent bundle \(TM\). In this paper, the author studies a Finsler metric of type \(F=\alpha \phi (s)\), \(s=\frac \beta \alpha\), called the \((\alpha ,\beta )\)- metrics, where \(\alpha =\sqrt{a_{ij}(x)y^iy^j}\) and \(\beta =b_i(x)y^i\neq 0\), such that \(F\) is not Riemannian and \(\phi ^{\prime }(0)\neq 0\). Conditions for \(F\) to be locally dually flat are given.