A natural Finsler-Laplace operator

DOI10.1007/S11856-012-0168-ZMaRDI QIDQ375893zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Barthelmé

Publication date 1 November 2013

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4326

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricsKatok-Ziller metricsLaplace operatorspectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: We give a new definition of a Laplace operator for Finsler metric as an average with regard to an angle measure of the second directional derivatives. This definition uses a dynamical approach due to Foulon that does not require the use of connections nor local coordinates. We show using 1-parameter families of Katok--Ziller metrics that this Finsler--Laplace operator admits explicit representations and computations of spectral data.

Review text

In this interesting paper, the author defines a Laplace operator on Finsler manifolds in terms of second-order directional derivatives. The constructed operator is a symmetric elliptic second-order differential operator. In some special coordinate representations the spectrum of the operator is computed effectively. The Laplacian introduced in the paper is different from Shen's operator (which is not linear) and from the Bao-Lackkey and Centore Laplacian operators (which are elliptic and symmetric but still different from the one introduced in the paper). The author introduces an angle form which is necessary for the constructions. The spectrum is calculated (or at least approximated, depending the situation) and there are given explicit representations for Katok-Ziller metrics on the 2-torus and on the 2-sphere.

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