Locally 2-fold symmetric manifolds are locally symmetric

DOI10.1007/S00013-017-1036-1MaRDI QIDQ527896zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shaoqiang Deng, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 12 May 2017

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05644

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler metricspseudo-Riemannian metricslocally symmetric manifoldsBerwald metricssymmetric manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Abstract: A manifold is locally emph{$k$-fold symmetric}, if for any point and any $k$-dimensional vector subspace tangent to this point there exists a local isometry such that this point is a fixed point and the differential of the isometry restricted to that $k$-dimensional vector subspace is minus the identity. We show that for $kge2$, Riemannian, pseudoriemannian and Finslerian locally $k$-fold symmetric manifolds are locally symmetric.

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• On the symmetry of Riemannian manifolds

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