Finsler metrics of weakly isotropic flag curvature (Q1986040)

The flag curvature plays an important role in Finsler geometry and can be viewed as a generalisation of sectional curvature from Riemannian geometry. Finsler metrics of scalar flag curvature are very important to be studied in Finsler geometry. In this paper, the author studies the Finsler metric \(F = F(x; y)\) on an \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) of scalar flag curvature \(K = K(x; y)\). As an application, the author studies the metric \(F\) of weakly isotropic flag curvature and he proves that, in this case, \(F\) must be a Randers metric when \(\dim(M)\geq 3\) or must be of constant flag curvature. Also, the author obtains similar results for projectively flat Finsler metrics of weakly isotropic flag curvature.