On compatible linear connections with totally anti-symmetric torsion tensor of three-dimensional generalized Berwald manifolds

DOI10.1007/S13366-019-00459-6MaRDI QIDQ2292903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Csaba Vincze

Publication date 6 February 2020

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06665

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler spacesgeneralized Berwalds spacesintrinsic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20)

Abstract: Generalized Berwald manifolds are Finsler manifolds admitting linear connections such that the parallel transports preserve the Finslerian length of tangent vectors. By the fundamental result of the theory cite{V5} such a linear connection must be metrical with respect to the averaged Riemannian metric given by integration of the Riemann-Finsler metric on the indicatrix hypersurfaces. Therefore the linear connection is uniquely determined by its torsion tensor. If the torsion is zero then we have a classical Berwald manifolds. Otherwise the torsion is a strange data we need to express in terms of quantities of the Finsler manifold. In the paper we are going to give explicit formulas for the linear connections with totally anti-symmetric torsion tensor of three-dimensional generalized Berwald manifolds. The results are based on averaging of (intrinsic) Finslerian quantities by integration over the indicatrix surfaces. They imply some consequences for the base manifold as a Riemannian space with respect to the averaged Riemannian metric. The possible cases are Riemannian spaces of constant zero curvature, constant positive curvature or Riemannian spaces admitting Killing vector fields of constant Riemannian length.

Review text

The authors give explicit formulas for the linear connections with totally anti-symmetric torsion tensor of three-dimensional generalized Berwald manifolds which are discribed in Theorem 2. Further, the results are based on averaging of (intrinsic) Finslerian quantities by integration over the indicatrix surfaces. Also, they imply some consequences for the base manifold as a Riemannian space with respect to the averaged Riemannian metric in theorems 3 and 4. The possible cases are Riemannian spaces of constant zero curvature, constant positive curvature or Riemannian spaces admitting Killing vector fields of constant Riemannian length.

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