Funk functions and projective deformations of sprays and Finsler spaces of scalar flag curvature

DOI10.1007/S12220-015-9661-ZzbMATH Open1358.53079arXiv1412.5282OpenAlexW3103292073MaRDI QIDQ345309FDOQ345309

Authors: Ioan Bucataru 

Publication date: 1 December 2016

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 2001, Zhongmin Shen asked if it is possible for two projectively related Finsler metrics to have the same Riemann curvature tensor, [14, page 184]. In this paper, we provide an answer to this question, within the class of Finsler metrics of scalar flag curvature. In Theorem 3.1, we show that the answer is negative, for non-vanishing scalar flag curvature. The answer is known to be positive when the scalar flag curvature vanishes, [12, 14] and this positive answer is related to the existence of many solutions to Hilbert's Fourth Problem. As a generalisation of this problem, we can ask if it is possible for a given spray, with non-vanishing scalar flag curvature, to represent, after reparametrisation, the geodesic spray of a Finsler metric. In Proposition 3.3, we show how to construct sprays whose projective class does not contain any Finsler metrizable spray with the same Riemann curvature tensor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5282

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zbMATH Keywords

Funk functionscalar flag curvatureFinsler metrizabilitygeodesic sprayJacobi endomorphismprojective deformationRiemann curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) 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) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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