Geodesic and curvature of piecewise flat Finsler surfaces (Q1651372)

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Geodesic and curvature of piecewise flat Finsler surfaces
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    Geodesic and curvature of piecewise flat Finsler surfaces (English)
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    12 July 2018
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    The authors of the paper find out the properties of geodesics in two classes of piecewise flat Finsler surfaces (namely, Landsberg type and Berwald type), especially when it meets a vertex. Further they obtained an explicit condition for a geodesic to be extendable at a vertex, and define the curvature which measures the \textit{amount} of such extensions and proved a combinatoric Gauss-Bonnet formula which generalizes both the Gauss-Bonnet formulas for piecewise flat Riemannian manifolds and for smooth Landsberg surfaces. The result obtained by them are useful for the standpoint of the Finsler geometry.
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    curvature
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    geodesic
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    Berwald condition
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    Landsberg condition
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    piecewise flat Finsler surface
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