Invariant metrizability and projective metrizability on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces (Q346935)

The present work is devoted to the Riemann and Finsler metrizability as well as to projective metrizability of the canonical spray \(S\) of a finite-dimensional Lie group \(G\). More precisely, the relationship between the invariant metrizability problem and the invariant projective metrizability problem is studied with respect to \(S\) provided by the canonical geodesic structure of \(G\) and expressed in the semi-invariant coordinate system on \(G\). A main result is that \(S\) is invariant projectively Finsler metrizable if and only if it is invariant Riemann metrizable. A second setting for this paper is given by a homogeneous space \(G/H\) with the so-called \textit{geodesic orbit structure} (g.o.) provided by geodesics as orbits of 1-parameter subgroups of \(G\). It is proved that such a g.o. structure is projectively invariant Riemann (resp. Finsler) metrizable if and only if it is invariant Riemann (resp. Finsler) metrizable. An important consequence concerns the quadratic case for which it is shown that the classes of projective Finsler metrizable and Riemann metrizable sprays coincide.