Identifying Berwald Finsler geometries

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2021.101817MaRDI QIDQ2665770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christian Pfeifer, Sjors Heefer, Andrea Fuster

Publication date 19 November 2021

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05284

zbMATH Keywords

\((\alpha,\beta)\)-metricsBerwald geometryFinsler geometryKundt spacetimesLorentzian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Berwald geometries are Finsler geometries close to (pseudo)-Riemannian geometries. We establish a simple first order partial differential equation as necessary and sufficient condition, which a given Finsler Lagrangian has to satisfy to be of Berwald type. Applied to $$-Finsler spaces, respectively $(A,B)$-Finsler spacetimes, this reduces to a necessary and sufficient condition for the Levi-Civita covariant derivative of the defining $1$-form. We illustrate our results with novel examples of $$-Berwald geometries which represent Finslerian versions of Kundt (constant scalar invariant) spacetimes. The results generalize earlier findings by Tavakol and van den Bergh, as well as the Berwald conditions for Randers and m-Kropina resp. very special/general relativity geometries.

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