Rigidity of negatively curved geodesic orbit Finsler spaces (Q2408538)

The authors prove some rigidity results on geodesic orbit Finsler spaces with non-positive curvature. The following theorems are proved: \textbf{1.} Any connected negatively curved geodesic orbit Finsler space must be a compact Riemannian symmetric space of rank one. \textbf{2.} Any geodesic orbit Finsler space with negative Ricci scalar and non-positive flag curvature must be a symmetric space of noncompact type. \textbf{3.} Let \(G\) be a simply connected solvable Lie group with its Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) satisfying \([\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}]\) is abelian and nonzero. Then it admits a negatively curved left-invariant Finsler metric if and only if the following conditions are satisfied: (1) \(\dim\mathfrak{g}=\dim[\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}]+1\); (2) there exists a vector \(u\in \mathfrak{g}\), such that all the eigenvalues of \(\text{ad}(u)|_{[\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}]}:[\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}]\longrightarrow[\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}]\) have positive real parts. These rigidity results are relevant to curvatures in Finsler geometry since flag curvature is one of the most important geometric objects.