Clifford-Wolf translations of homogeneous Randers spheres (Q2017126)

Let \((M,F)\) be a Finsler manifold. A Clifford-Wolf translation (or simply a CW-translation) \(\sigma\) of \((M,F)\) is an isometry of \((M,F)\) such that \(d(x,\sigma(x))\) is a constant function, where \(d\) is the distance on \(M\) defined as the minimum of the arc lengths among all piece-wise smooth curves from one point to another. \((M,F)\) is called Clifford-Wolf homogeneous (or simply CW-homogeneous) if for any two points \(x_1, x_2 \in M\) there is a CW-translation \(\sigma\) such that \(\sigma(x_1)=x_2\). The main purpose of the paper is to give a complete description of CW-translations of homogeneous Randers metrics on spheres. The authors show that there are non-Riemannian CW-homogeneous Randers metrics on the spheres which are not of Berwald type. Therefore they have found non-Riemannian CW-homogeneous Randers metrics on the spheres which are not locally Finsler symmetric. This fact shows that there is a great difference between Riemannian and Finsler cases, because any CW-homogeneous Riemannian manifold must be locally symmetric.