On geometric vector fields of Minkowski spaces and their applications (Q2491897)

This paper studies affine vector fields on a vector space, which are affine with respect to the Funk metric, associated with the indicatrix hypersurface. The author gives an upper bound for dimension of their Lie algebra. It is proved that equality holds if and only if the Minkowski space is Euclidean. It is also remarked that in case of a Euclidean vector space the Funk metric is reduced to the standard Cayley-Klein metric perturbed with a nonzero 1-form. As an application, the author presents the general solutions on Matsumoto's problem on conformal equivalent Berwald and locally Minkowski manifolds. The main result is that the conformal equivalence between two Berwald manifolds must be trivial unless the manifolds are Riemannian. The results are original.