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Clifford-Wolf homogeneous left invariant $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics on compact semi-simple Lie groups

Differential Geometry 2013-12-04 v2

Abstract

Let (M,F)(M,F) be a connected Finsler space. An isometry of (M,F)(M,F) is called a Clifford-Wolf translation (or simply CW-translation) if it moves all points the same distance. The compact Finsler space (M,F)(M,F) is called restrictively Clifford-Wolf homogeneous (restrictively CW-homogeneous) if for any two sufficiently close points x1,x2Mx_1,x_2\in M, there exists a CW-translation σ\sigma such that σ(x1)=x2\sigma(x_1)=x_2. In this paper, we define the good normalized datum for a homogeneous non-Riemannian (α,β)(\alpha,\beta)-space, and use it to study the restrictive CW-homogeneity of left invariant (α,β)(\alpha,\beta)-metrics on a compact connected semisimple Lie group. We prove that a left invariant restrictively CW-homogeneous (α,β)(\alpha,\beta)-metric on a compact semisimple Lie group must be of the Randers type. This gives a complete classification of left invariant (α,β)(\alpha,\beta)-metrics on compact semi-simple Lie groups which are restrictively Clifford-Wolf homogeneous.

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@article{arxiv.1301.1813,
  title  = {Clifford-Wolf homogeneous left invariant $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics on compact semi-simple Lie groups},
  author = {Ming Xu and Shaoqiang Deng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.1813},
  year   = {2013}
}

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21 pages