On the flag curvature of invariant Randers metrics (Q934996)

The geometry of invariant structures on homogeneous spaces is one of the interesting subjects in differential geometry. Invariant metrics have these invariant structures. In the present paper, the flag curvature of invariant Randers metrics on homogeneous spaces and Lie groups is investigated. One first gives an explicit formula for the flag curvature of invariant Randers metrics arising from invariant Riemannian metrics on homogeneous spaces and, in the special case of Lie groups. Then the Randers metrics of constant positive flag curvature and the complete underlying Riemannian metric on Lie groups are studied. Finally, one gives some properties of those Lie groups which admit a left invariant non-Riemannian metric and a left invariant vector field.