Projectively flat Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03216-6zbMATH Open1027.53095arXivmath/0109178OpenAlexW1941288327MaRDI QIDQ4787481FDOQ4787481

Zhongmin Shen

Publication date: 7 January 2003

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is the Hilbert's Fourth Problem to characterize the (not-necessarily-reversible) distance functions on a bounded convex domain in R^n such that straight lines are shortest paths. Distance functions induced by a Finsler metric are regarded as smooth ones. Finsler metrics with straight geodesics said to be projective. It is known that the flag curvature of any projective Finsler metric is a scalar function of tangent vectors (the flag curvature must be a constant if it is Riemannian). Thus it is a natural problem to study those of constant curvature. In this paper, we study the Hilbert Fourth Problem in the smooth case. We first give a formula for x-analytic projective Finsler metrics F(x,y) of constant curvature K=c using a power series with coefficients expressed in terms of f(y):=F(0, y), h(y):=(1/2)F(x,y)^{-1}F_{x^k}(0, y)y^k and c. Then, for any given pair {f(y), h(y)} and any constant c, we give an algebraic formula for smooth projective Finsler metrics with constant curvature K=c and F(0, y)=f(y) and F_{x^k}(0, y)y^k=2f(y)h(y). By these formulas, we obtain several special projective Finsler metrics of constant curvature which can be used as models in Finsler geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0109178

Recommendations

• ON A CLASS OF PROJECTIVELY FLAT FINSLER METRICS WITH CONSTANT FLAG CURVATURE
• On some classes of projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• A new class of projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• On the classification of projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• On a class of singular projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• On a class of projectively flat Finsler metrics of negative constant flag curvature
• On a Class of Projectively Flat Metrics with Constant Flag Curvature
• On a class of two-dimensional projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3937976
• A new class of projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature \(K=1\)

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricsTaylor expansionconstant flag curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Differential geometry of spray and Finsler spaces
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The theory of sprays and Finsler spaces with applications in physics and biology
• Projectively flat Finsler 2-spheres of constant curvature
• On an Asymmetrical Metric in the Four-Space of General Relativity
• Finsler Metrics of Constant Positive Curvature on the Lie Group S ³
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Mathematical problems
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Symplectic geometry and Hilbert's fourth problem
• On Randers spaces of constant flag curvature
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Hilbert's fourth problem. I
• Two-dimensional Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• Projectively flat Randers metrics with constant flag curvature
• Crofton formulas in projective Finsler spaces
• A note on pseudo-metrics on the plane
• The corrected fundamental theorem on the Randers spaces of constant curvature
• Integralgeometrie. XI. Zur Variationsrechnung
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Planes for which the lines are the shortest paths between points

Cited In (69)

• The holonomy of spherically symmetric projective Finsler metrics of constant curvature
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On a class of Finsler metrics of scalar flag curvature defined by the Euclidean metric and related 1-forms
• On homogeneous projectively flat Finsler metrics
• On the Pontrjagin classes of spray manifolds
• On the existence of parallel one forms
• Some examples of Finsler metrics with special curvature properties
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A class of projectively flat Finsler metrics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Weakly Douglas Finsler warped product metrics
• A characterization of Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature
• A new characterization of Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature 1
• On sprays of scalar curvature and metrizability
• On strongly convex projectively flat and dually flat complex Finsler metrics
• Finsler metrics on surfaces admitting three projective vector fields
• On a class of locally projectively flat Finsler metrics (II)
• A large family of projectively equivalent \(C^0\)-Finsler manifolds
• Four families of projectively flat Finsler metrics with \(\mathbf{K}=1\) and their non-Riemannian curvature properties
• Projectively flat Finsler metrics defined by the Euclidean metric and related 1-forms
• Inverse problem of sprays with scalar curvature
• Deformations and Hilbert's fourth problem
• ON A CLASS OF PROJECTIVELY FLAT FINSLER METRICS WITH CONSTANT FLAG CURVATURE
• On a class of projectively flat Finsler metrics with flag curvature \(K=1\)
• Finsler metrics with positive constant flag curvature
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Finsler metrizable isotropic sprays and Hilbert's fourth problem
• Hilbert’s Fourth Problem and Projectively Flat Finsler Metrics
• Some constructions of projectively flat Finsler metrics
• Projectively flat general \((\alpha, \beta)\)-metrics with constant flag curvature
• On a class of two-dimensional projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• Projective spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature in \(\mathbb {R} ^{n }\)
• Reduction of certain projectively flat Finsler metrics
• On the curvature of warped product Finsler spaces and the Laplacian of the Sasaki-Finsler metrics
• On a class of projectively flat Finsler metrics with weakly isotropic flag curvature
• On some classes of projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• A new class of projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature \(K=1\)
• General spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with constant Ricci and flag curvature
• Finsler manifolds with nonpositive flag curvature and constant S-curvature
• Reversible Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature
• On some explicit constructions of dually flat Finsler metrics
• New developments in holonomy theory of differentiable systems
• On a class of singular projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• On a class of projectively flat Finsler metrics of negative constant flag curvature
• Two-dimensional Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• Flag curvatures of homogeneous Finsler spaces
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A characterisation for Finsler metrics of constant curvature and a Finslerian version of Beltrami theorem
• Symmetry and special relativity in Finsler spacetime with constant curvature
• On spherically symmetric Finsler metric with scalar and constant flag curvature
• On strongly convex weakly Kähler-Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature
• On the classification of projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature
• Holonomy Theory of Finsler Manifolds
• Nonlinear spectrums of Finsler manifolds
• On projective invariants of general spherically symmetric Finsler spaces in \(\mathbb{R}^n\)
• On some Finsler metrics of non-positive constant flag curvature
• Unexpected behaviour of flag and \(S\)-curvatures on the interpolated Poincaré metric
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The general spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with isotropic \(E\)-curvature
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On a class of Einstein Finsler metrics
• Projectively flat singular square metrics with constant flag curvature
• On Finsler surfaces of constant curvature with two-dimensional isometry group
• Sprays of isotropic curvature
• On dually flat Finsler metrics
• On spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with vanishing Douglas curvature
• On a class of projectively flat Finsler metrics
• Some classes of sprays in projective spray geometry

This page was built for publication: Projectively flat Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4787481)