Solutions for the Landsberg unicorn problem in Finsler geometry (Q2219917)

A long-standing open problem in Finsler geometry asks whether there exists any regular Landsberg metric which is not Berwaldian. However, there are non-regular Landsberg metrics which are not Berwaldian. The known examples are established by G. S. Asanov and Z. Shen. In this paper, the author uses the Maple program to study some explicit examples of non-Berwaldian Landsberg metrics. Such kinds of examples are very tedious and complicated to investigate, and the use of Maple program and Finsler packages considerably simplifies the calculations. Depending on these examples, some geometric properties of the geodesic spray of a non-Berwaldian Landsberg metric are figured out. The deforming of this spray in a very specific way and the metrizability tools of the deformed spray, allow to obtain new (very simple) non-Berwaldian Landsberg metrics. Moreover, the power of this procedure relies on a simple and useful formula for the general class, obtained by Zhongmin Shen.