Zermelo deformation of Finsler metrics by Killing vector fields

DOI10.3934/ERA.2018.25.001MaRDI QIDQ1994818zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Foulon, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 2 November 2018

Published in Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01281

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricKilling vector fieldssymmetric spacesZermelo deformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: We show how geodesics, Jacobi vector fields and flag curvature of a Finsler metric behave under Zermelo deformation with respect to a Killing vector field. We also show that Zermelo deformation with respect to a Killing vector field of a locally symmetric Finsler metric is also locally symmetric.

Review text

In the words of the authors, a Finsler metric \(F\) is called locally symmetric if for any geodesic \(\gamma \) the covariant derivative of the Riemann curvature satisfies the relation \(D_{\dot{\gamma}}R_{\dot{\gamma}}=0\). In such a geometrical context, the main result of the paper is that if \(F\) is locally symmetric, then the Zermelo deformation \(\widetilde{F}\) with respect to a Killing vector field \(v\) is also a locally symmetric Finsler metric.

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