Finsler metrics and semi-symmetric compatible linear connections

DOI10.1007/S00022-022-00654-2MaRDI QIDQ2082148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Csaba Vincze, Márk Oláh

Publication date 4 October 2022

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01034

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodiesFinsler spacesgeneralized Berwald spacesintrinsic geometryMinkowski normsemi-symmetric linear connectionstangent hyperplanes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20)

Abstract: Finsler metrics are direct generalizations of Riemannian metrics such that the quadratic Riemannian indicatrices in the tangent spaces of a manifold are replaced by more general convex bodies as unit spheres. A linear connection on the base manifold is called compatible with the Finsler metric if the induced parallel transports preserve the Finslerian length of tangent vectors. Finsler manifolds admitting compatible linear connections are called generalized Berwald manifolds. Compatible linear connections are the solutions of the so-called compatibility equations containing the torsion components as unknowns. Although there are some theoretical results for the solvability of the compatibility equations (monochromatic Finsler metrics cite{BM}, extremal compatible linear connections, algorithmic solutions cite{V14}), it is very hard to solve in general because compatible linear connections may or may not exist on a Finsler manifold and may or may not be unique. Therefore special cases are of special interest. One of them is the case of the so-called semi-symmetric compatible linear connection with decomposable torsion tensor. It is proved cite{V10} (see also cite{V11}) that such a compatible linear connection must be uniquely determined. The original proof is based on averaging in the sense that the 1-form in the decomposition of the torsion tensor can be expressed by integrating differential forms on the tangent manifold over the Finslerian indicatrices. The integral formulas are very difficult to compute in practice. We present a new proof for the unicity result by using linear algebra and some basic facts about convex bodies and an explicit formula for the solution without integration. Necessary conditions of the solvability are also formulated in terms of intrinsic equations without unknown quantities. They are sufficient if and only if the solution depends only on the position.

Review text

The purpose of the authors is to provide a new proof of the following result by \textit{C. Vincze} [Publ. Math. Debr. 83, No. 4, 741--755 (2013; Zbl 1299.53154)]: a non-Riemannian Finsler manifold admits at most one semi-symmetric compatible linear connection. To be more precise, they give a new proof for the uniqueness by using linear algebra and some basic facts about convex bodies and present an explicit formula for the solution without integration.

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