On projectively flat Finsler spaces

DOI10.1007/S10474-013-0327-7MaRDI QIDQ485501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lajos Tamássy, Tran Quoc Binh, Dávid Cs. Kertész

Publication date 9 January 2015

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06936

Finsler space projectively flat projectively Euclidean

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Abstract: First we present a short overview of the long history of projectively flat Finsler spaces. We give a simple and quite elementary proof of the already known condition for the projective flatness, and we give a criterion for the projective flatness of a special Lagrange space (Theorem 1). After this we obtain a second-order PDE system, whose solvability is necessary and sufficient for a Finsler space to be projectively flat (Theorem 2). We also derive a condition in order that an infinitesimal transformation takes geodesics of a Finsler space into geodesics. This yields a Killing type vector field (Theorem 3). In the last section we present a characterization of the Finsler spaces which are projectively flat in a parameter-preserving manner (Theorem 4), and we show that these spaces over

m a t h b b R^{n}

are exactly the Minkowski spaces (Theorems 5 and 6).

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