The \(S\)-curvature of homogeneous Randers spaces
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The \(S\)-curvature of homogeneous Randers spaces
zbMATH Open document ID: 1165.53051
author: Shaoqiang Deng
published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications
publication date: 2009-02-20T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper studies the S-curvature of homogeneous Randers spaces. A Randers space is a deformation of a Riemannian space \((M,a)\) by a linear 1-form \(\beta\) such that \(a(\beta,\beta)<1\). The classical literature concerning Randers spaces is a very well developed field of modern Finsler geometry. However, the majority of concepts are described in standard local coordinates. The main novelty of the present paper is that it gives not only a characterization of the S-curvature, but also it describes many important geometrical objects without making use of local coordinates. The main result of the paper is the formula for S-curvature of a homogeneous Randers space (theorem 3.1) in coordinates free language. This leads to some interesting characterizations of Randers spaces of Douglas and Berwald types. The paper extends several classical results on homogeneous Riemannian manifolds to the more general case of Randers homogeneous manifolds proving that a serious further investigation of the curvature related geometrical properties of these geometrical structures would be very interesting.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58B20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E46
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E60
zbMATH DE Number: 5509724
zbMATH Keywords: Randers spaces
zbMATH Keywords: \(S\)-curvature
zbMATH Keywords: Berwald spaces
reviewed by: Hideo Shimada
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: j.difgeo.2008.06.007
OpenAlex ID: W2084988265
Wikidata QID: Q115357475
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DOI: 10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2008.06.007
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5509724