Averaged Riemannian metrics and connections with application to locally conformal Berwald manifolds (Q2915428)

The author recalls in his own formalism the notion of averaged Riemannian metric and averaged connection defined in [\textit{R. Gallego Torrome} and \textit{F. Etayo}, Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat., Ser. A Mat., RACSAM 104, No. 1, 69--80 (2010; Zbl 1197.53023)]. Then he proves, among other, the following:NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEi) If \((M,L)\) is a Landsberg manifold and \(g\) is the averaged metric for \((M,L)\), then the covariant derivative \(\nabla\) obtained from the Berwald derivative \(D\) of \((M,L)\) is the Levi-Civita derivation of \(g\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEii) If \((M,L)\) is a locally conformal Berwald manifold and \(g\) is the averaged Riemannian metric for \((M,L)\), and the free-torsion covariant derivative \(\nabla\) satisfies a certain condition then \(\nabla\) is the Weyl connection for the conformal class of \(g\).