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Geodesic orbit Finsler metrics on Euclidean spaces

Differential Geometry 2018-10-12 v2

Abstract

A Finsler space (M,F)(M,F) is called a geodesic orbit space if any geodesic of constant speed is the orbit of a one-parameter subgroup of isometries of (M,F)(M, F). In this paper, we study Finsler metrics on Euclidean spaces which are geodesic orbit metrics. We will show that, in this case (M,F)(M, F) is a fiber bundle over a symmetric Finsler space M1M_1 of non-compact type such that each fiber M2M_2 is a totally geodesic nilmanifold with a step-size at most 2, and the projection π:MM1\pi:M\rightarrow M_1 is a Finslerian submersion. Furthermore, when M1M_1 has no Hermitian symmetric factors, the fiber bundle description for MM can be strengthened to M=M1×M2M=M_1\times M_2 as coset spaces, such that each product factor is totally geodesic in (M,F)(M,F) and is a geodesic orbit Finsler space itself. Finally, we use the techniques in this paper to discuss the interaction between the geodesic orbit spaces and the negative (non-positive) curved conditions, and provide new proofs for some of our previous results.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1807.02976,
  title  = {Geodesic orbit Finsler metrics on Euclidean spaces},
  author = {Ming Xu and Shaoqiang Deng and Zaili Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02976},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

In the second version of this paper, we corrected some mistakes and made some changes on the main theorem and the structure of the paper