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Geodesic orbit Finsler space with $K\geq0$ and the (FP) condition

Differential Geometry 2019-07-16 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study the interaction between the geodesic orbit (g.o.~in short) property and certain flag curvature conditions. A Finsler manifold is called g.o.~if each constant speed geodesic is the orbit of a one-parameter subgroup. Besides the non-negatively curved condition, we also concern the (FP) condition for the flag curvature, i.e., in any flag we can find a flag pole, such that the flag curvature is positive. The main theorem we will prove is the following. If a g.o.~Finsler space (M,F)(M,F) has non-negative flag curvature and satisfies the (FP) condition, then MM must be compact. Further more, if we present MM as G/HG/H where GG has a compact Lie algebra, then we have the rank inequality rkgrkh+1\mathrm{rk}\mathfrak{g}\leq\mathrm{rk}\mathfrak{h}+1. As an application of the main theorem, we prove that any even dimensional g.o.~Finsler space which has non-negative flag curvature and satisfies the (FP) condition must be a smooth coset space admitting positively curved homogeneous Riemannian or Finsler metrics.

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@article{arxiv.1907.05985,
  title  = {Geodesic orbit Finsler space with $K\geq0$ and the (FP) condition},
  author = {Ming Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05985},
  year   = {2019}
}