Randers manifolds of positive constant curvature (Q1811894)
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Randers manifolds of positive constant curvature (English)
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18 June 2003
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The authors prove that the dimension of a Randers manifold of constant flag curvature must be odd. One only needs the additional condition of Bao and Robles that a certain one-form vanishes. The development is based on a remarkable relationship of this type of manifold with Sasakian space forms.
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Finsler geometry
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flag curvature
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Randers metric
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Sasakian space form
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