Conformally related Douglas metrics in dimension two are Randers

DOI10.1007/S00013-020-01533-5MaRDI QIDQ2657488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samaneh Saberali, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 12 March 2021

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05134

zbMATH Keywords

affine connectionFinsler metricgeodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We show that two-dimensional conformally related Douglas metrics are Randers

Review text

A Finsler metric \(F\) on the manifold \(M^{n}\) is a Douglas metric if the spray coefficients have the form \[ G^{i}(x,y)=\frac{1}{2}\Gamma _{jk}^{i}(x)y^{j}y^{k}+P(x,y)y^{i}, \] where \(\Gamma =\left( \Gamma _{jk}^{i}(x)\right)\) is an affine connection and \(P(x,y)\) is a local positive homogeneous function of degree one. The main result of this paper is that, for the dimension \(n=2\), if a Finsler metric \(F\), together with its associated conformal Finsler metric \(e^{\sigma (x)}F\), are both Douglas metrics, then the Finsler metric \(F\) is a Randers metric of the form \(F=\alpha +\beta \), where \(\alpha =\sqrt{a_{ij}(x)y^{i}y^{j}}\) is a Riemannian metric and we have \(\beta =df\) (here \(f=f(x)\) is a function on the manifold \(M^2\)). Moreover, the conformal factor \(\sigma=\sigma (x)\) is a function of \(f\), that is we have \(\sigma=\sigma (f)\). The problem of description of the conformally related Finsler metrics which are Douglas metrics for the dimension \(n\geq 3\) is also approached by the authors, by sketching a possible way to investigate this general problem.

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