Can we make a Finsler metric complete by a trivial projective change?
Abstract
A trivial projective change of a Finsler metric is the Finsler metric . I explain when it is possible to make a given Finsler metric both forward and backward complete by a trivial projective change. The problem actually came from lorentz geometry and mathematical relativity: it was observed that it is possible to understand the light-line geodesics of a (normalized, standard) stationary 4-dimensional space-time as geodesics of a certain Finsler Randers metric on a 3-dimensional manifold. The trivial projective change of the Finsler metric corresponds to the choice of another 3-dimensional slice, and the existence of a trivial projective change that is forward and backward complete is equivalent to the global hyperbolicity of the space-time.
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@article{arxiv.1112.5060,
title = {Can we make a Finsler metric complete by a trivial projective change?},
author = {Vladimir S. Matveev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5060},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, one figure, submitted to the proceedings of VI International Meeting on Lorentzian Geometry (Granada)