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Four-dimensional SO(3)-spherically symmetric Berwald Finsler spaces

Differential Geometry 2023-09-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We locally classify all SO(3)-invariant 4-dimensional pseudo-Finsler Berwald structures. These are Finslerian geometries which are closest to (spatially, or SO(3))-spherically symmetric pseudo-Riemannian ones - and serve as ansatz to find solutions of Finsler gravity equations which generalize the Einstein equations. We find that there exist six classes of non pseudo-Riemannian (i.e., non-quadratic in the velocities) SO(3)-spherically symmetric pseudo-Finsler Berwald functions, which have either: a power law, an exponential law, or a one- or two-variable dependence on the velocities.

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@article{arxiv.2212.08603,
  title  = {Four-dimensional SO(3)-spherically symmetric Berwald Finsler spaces},
  author = {Samira Cheraghchi and Christian Pfeifer and Nicoleta Voicu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08603},
  year   = {2023}
}

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