The Schwarzian derivative and conformal transformation on Finsler manifolds

DOI10.4134/JKMS.J190436zbMATH Open1460.53060arXiv2002.08015OpenAlexW3168329198MaRDI QIDQ5118832FDOQ5118832

F. Sedighi, Behroz Bidabad

Publication date: 27 August 2020

Abstract: Thurston, in 1986, discovered that the Schwarzian derivative has mysterious properties similar to the curvature on a manifold. After his work, there are several approaches to develop this notion on Riemannian manifolds. Here, a tensor field is identified in the study of global conformal diffeomorphisms on Finsler manifolds as a natural generalization of the Schwarzian derivative. Then, a natural definition of a Mobius mapping on Finsler manifolds is given and its properties are studied. In particular, it is shown that Mobius mappings are mappings that preserve circles and vice versa. Therefore, if a forward geodesically complete Finsler manifold admits a Mobius mapping, then the indicatrix is conformally diffeomorphic to the Euclidean sphere $S^{n-1}$ in $mathbb{R}^n$. In addition, if a forward geodesically complete absolutely homogeneous Finsler manifold of scalar flag curvature admits a non-trivial change of Mobius mapping, then it is a Riemannian manifold of constant sectional curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08015

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zbMATH Keywords

projectiveconformalSchwarzianconcircularMöbius mapping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18)

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