Berwald spaces of bounded curvature are Riemannian

MaRDI QIDQ4615185zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nathaphon Boonnam, Rattanasak Hama, Sorin V. Sabau

Publication date 1 February 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02999

zbMATH Keywords

holonomy groupFinsler manifoldsBerwald manifoldsmaximal-diameter sphere theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Abstract: We prove that Berwald spaces whose flag curvature is nowhere vanishing are in fact Riemannian spaces. This means that any Berwald space with flag curvature bounded below by a positive number must be also Riemannian. This rigidity result shows the importance of non-Riemannian examples when imposing flag curvature bounds on Finsler spaces.

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