There exist no locally symmetric Finsler spaces of positive or negative flag curvature

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2014.10.022MaRDI QIDQ2255256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 9 February 2015

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2924

zbMATH Keywords

flag curvaturelocally symmetric Finsler spacesRiemannian metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Abstract: We show that the results of Foulon (1997 an 2002) and Kim (2007) (independently, Deng and Hou (2007)) about the nonexistence of locally symmetric Finsler metrics of positive or negative flag curvature are in fact local.

Review text

In this paper, the author shows that the results of \textit{P. Foulon} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 324, No. 10, 1127--1132 (1997; Zbl 0882.53051)] and \textit{C.-W. Kim} [Arch. Math. 88, No. 4, 378--384 (2007; Zbl 1126.53050)] (independently, of \textit{S. Deng} and \textit{Z. Hou} [Isr. J. Math. 162, 197--219 (2007; Zbl 1141.53071)]) about the non existence of locally symmetric Finsler metrics of positive or negative flag curvature are in fact local. It is proved that if the flag curvature of a locally symmetric metric is negative or positive, then the metric is a Riemannian metric, i.e., there exists a Riemannian metric \(h\) such that \( \forall p\in M, y\in T_{p}M \), we have \( F_{p}\left( y\right) =\sqrt{h_{p}\left( y, y\right) } \). Some special cases are also discussed taking \(M\) compact.

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