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Adiabatic limit and connections in Finsler Geometry

Differential Geometry 2012-10-31 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we identify the Bott connection on the natural foliation of the projective sphere bundle of a Finsler manifold to the Chern connection of this manifold. As a consequence, the symmetrization of the Bott connection turns out to be the Cartan connection of the Finsler manifold. Following Liu-Zhang \cite{LiuZ}, the Cartan connection can also be obtained through an adiabatic limit process. Furthermore, a Chern-Simons type form is defined and its conformal properties are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1207.1552,
  title  = {Adiabatic limit and connections in Finsler Geometry},
  author = {Huitao Feng and Ming Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.1552},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

In this new version, we give a simpler proof of our main result