Rigidity of Busemann convex Finsler metrics

DOI10.4171/CMH/476zbMATH Open1481.53096arXiv1711.02951OpenAlexW2995979020MaRDI QIDQ2301922FDOQ2301922

Authors: Alexander Lytchak, Sergei Ivanov 

Publication date: 25 February 2020

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that a Finsler metric is nonpositively curved in the sense of Busemann if and only if it is affinely equivalent to a Riemannian metric of nonpositive sectional curvature. In other terms, such Finsler metrics are precisely Berwald metrics of nonpositive flag curvature. In particular in dimension 2 every such metric is Riemannian or locally isometric to that of a normed plane. In the course of the proof we obtain new characterizations of Berwald metrics in terms of the so-called linear parallel transport.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02951

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zbMATH Keywords

non-positive curvatureBusemann convex spaceBerwald metric, affinely equivalent Finsler metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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