Normal homogeneous Finsler spaces

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Abstract: In this paper, we study normal homogeneous Finsler spaces. We first define the notion of a normal homogeneous Finsler space, using the method of isometric submersion of Finsler metrics. Then we study the geometric properties. In particular, we establish a technique to reduce the classification of normal homogeneous Finsler spaces of positive flag curvature to an algebraic problem. The main result of this paper is a classification of positively curved normal homogeneous Finsler spaces. It turns out that a coset space G/H admits a positively curved normal homogeneous Finsler metric if and only if it admits a positively curved normal homogeneous Riemannian metric. We will also give a complete description of the coset spaces admitting non-Riemannian positively curved normal homogeneous Finsler spaces.


The main goal of this article is to extend the study of normal homogeneous Riemannian spaces to normal homogeneous Finsler spaces. But the definition of normal homogeneous Riemannian can not be directly generalized to the Finslerian case. So to get a natural generalization of the normality in Finsler geometry, the authors use the notion of isometric submersion for Finsler metrics. Then they study some fundamental geometric properties of normal Finsler spaces. They consider normal homogeneous Finsler spaces with positive flag curvature. Let \(G\) be a connected Lie group and \(H\) a closed subgroup of \(G\). Suppose now the homogeneous space \(G/H\) admits a normal homogeneous Finsler space of positive flag curvature. It is proved as the main result of this paper that up to equivalence such \(G/H\) must be one in the following list: {\parindent=7mm\begin{itemize}\item[(1)] Riemannian symmetric coset spaces of rank 1. \item[(2)] Other normal homogeneous Finsler spheres: \(\mathrm{SU}(n)/\mathrm{SU}(n - 1)\), \(\mathrm{U}(n)/\mathrm{U}(n - 1)\), \(\mathrm{Sp}(n)/\mathrm{Sp}(n-1)\), \(\mathrm{Sp}(n)\cdot S^1/\mathrm{Sp}(n-1)\cdot S^1\), \(\mathrm{Sp}(n)\cdot \mathrm{Sp}(1)/\mathrm{Sp}(n-1)\cdot\mathrm{Sp}(1)\), \(G_2/\mathrm{SU}(3)\), \(\mathrm{Spin}(7)/G_2\), \(\mathrm{Spin}(9)/\mathrm{Spin}(7)\). \item[(3)] Exceptional ones: \(\mathrm{SU}(3) \times\mathrm{SO}(3)/\mathrm{U}^\ast(2)\), \(\mathrm{Sp}(2)/\mathrm{SU}(2)\), \(\mathrm{SU}(5)/\mathrm{Sp}(2)\cdot S^1\). \end{itemize}} Then the authors determine the spaces \(G/H\) from this list that admit non-Riemannian normal homogeneous Finsler metrics with positive curvature.



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