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Berwald spaces of bounded curvature are Riemannian

Differential Geometry 2018-08-10 v1

Abstract

We prove that Berwald spaces whose flag curvature is nowhere vanishing are in fact Riemannian spaces. This means that any Berwald space with flag curvature bounded below by a positive number must be also Riemannian. This rigidity result shows the importance of non-Riemannian examples when imposing flag curvature bounds on Finsler spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1808.02999,
  title  = {Berwald spaces of bounded curvature are Riemannian},
  author = {Nathaphon Boonnam and Rattanasak Hama and Sorin V. Sabau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02999},
  year   = {2018}
}