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Finsler conformal Lichnerowicz-Obata conjecture

Differential Geometry 2011-08-22 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove the Finsler analog of the conformal Lichnerowicz-Obata conjecture showing that a complete and essential conformal vector field on a non-Riemannian Finsler manifold is a homothetic vector field of a Minkowski metric.

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@article{arxiv.0802.3309,
  title  = {Finsler conformal Lichnerowicz-Obata conjecture},
  author = {Vladimir S. Matveev and Hans-Bert Rademacher and Marc Troyanov and Abdelghani Zeghib},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3309},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures; the new version has only minor changes with respect to v1, and is the version that will be published in Annales de L'Institut Fourier

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