Locally conformally Berwald manifolds and compact quotients of reducible manifolds by homotheties (Q1687882)

The authors study locally conformally Berwald metrics on closed manifolds which are not globally conformally Berwald. It is proved that the characterization of such metrics is equivalent to characterizing incomplete, simply-connected, Riemannian manifolds with reducible holonomy group whose quotient by a group of homotheties is closed. As well, a de Rham type splitting theorem is obtained, which states that if such a manifold is analytic, then it is isometric to the Riemannian product of a Euclidean space and an incomplete manifold.