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Clifford-Wolf homogeneous Finsler metrics on spheres

Differential Geometry 2013-12-04 v1

Abstract

An isometry of a Finsler space is called Clifford-Wolf translation (CW-translation) if it moves all points the same distance. A Finsler space (M,F)(M, F) is called Clifford-Wolf homogeneous (CW-homogeneous) if for any x,yMx, y\in M there is a CW-translation σ\sigma such that σ(x)=y\sigma (x)=y. We prove that if FF is a homogeneous Finsler metric on the sphere SnS^n such that (Sn,F)(S^n, F) is CW-homogeneous, then FF must be a Randers metric. This gives a complete classification of CW-homogeneous Finsler metrics on spheres.

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@article{arxiv.1312.0747,
  title  = {Clifford-Wolf homogeneous Finsler metrics on spheres},
  author = {Ming Xu and Shaoqiang Deng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0747},
  year   = {2013}
}

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