Isometries, submetries and distance coordinates on Finsler manifolds
Differential Geometry
2014-06-23 v1
Abstract
This paper considers fundamental issues related to Finslerian isometries, submetries, distance and geodesics. It is shown that at each point of a Finsler manifold there is a distance coordinate system. Using distance coordinates, a simple proof is given for the Finslerian version of the Myers-Steenrod theorem and for the differentiability of Finslerian submetries.
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@article{arxiv.1406.5331,
title = {Isometries, submetries and distance coordinates on Finsler manifolds},
author = {Bernadett Aradi and David Csaba Kertesz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5331},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
This is not the final published version of the paper. Final version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10474-013-0381-1