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A functional characterization of isometries between non-reversible Finsler manifolds

Functional Analysis 2025-01-07 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We provide a functional characterization of isometries between non-reversible Finsler manifolds, in the form of a generalization of the Myers-Nakai Theorem for Riemannian manifolds. We show that, since non-reversible Finsler manifolds are a fundamentally asymmetric object, such a result can not be obtained by means of a symmetric function space, and we define the appropriate asymmetric structure needed to describe all possible isometries between this class of manifolds. The result is based on the ideas used in a previous generalization for reversible Finsler manifolds proved in \cite{GJR-13}, in which the normed algebra of C1C^1-smooth Lipschitz functions is used. To reflect the quasi-metric structure of non-reversible Finsler manifolds, this normed algebra had to be modified to include the cone of smooth semi-Lipschitz functions, resulting in a partial loss of the normed space and algebra structures. In order to achieve the desired result, we define new algebraic/quasi-metric structures to model the behavior of the aforementioned function space.

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@article{arxiv.2405.06788,
  title  = {A functional characterization of isometries between non-reversible Finsler manifolds},
  author = {Francisco Venegas M},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.06788},
  year   = {2025}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.02647 by other authors