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Fubini Theorem for pseudo-Riemannian metrics

Differential Geometry 2011-08-08 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We generalize the following classical result of Fubini for pseudo-Riemannian metrics: if three essentially different metrics on Mn3M^{n\ge 3} share the same unparametrized geodesics, and two of them (say, gg and gˉ\bar g) are strictly nonproportional (i.e., the minimal polynomial of giαgˉαjg^{i\alpha} \bar g_{\alpha j} coincides with the characteristic polynomial) at least at one point, then they have constant curvature.

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@article{arxiv.0806.2632,
  title  = {Fubini Theorem for pseudo-Riemannian metrics},
  author = {Alexey V. Bolsinov and Volodymyr Kiosak and Vladimir S. Matveev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2632},
  year   = {2011}
}
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