Can we make a Finsler metric complete by a trivial projective change?

DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-4897-6_10MaRDI QIDQ2861902zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 11 November 2013

Published in Recent Trends in Lorentzian Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5060

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricprojective changeforward completebackward completeunparameterized geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A trivial projective change of a Finsler metric $F$ is the Finsler metric $F+df$. I explain when it is possible to make a given Finsler metric both forward and backward complete by a trivial projective change. The problem actually came from lorentz geometry and mathematical relativity: it was observed that it is possible to understand the light-line geodesics of a (normalized, standard) stationary 4-dimensional space-time as geodesics of a certain Finsler Randers metric on a 3-dimensional manifold. The trivial projective change of the Finsler metric corresponds to the choice of another 3-dimensional slice, and the existence of a trivial projective change that is forward and backward complete is equivalent to the global hyperbolicity of the space-time.

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