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Nullity distributions associated with Chern connection

Differential Geometry 2016-01-22 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The nullity distributions of the two curvature tensors \, \overastR\overast{R} and \overastP\overast{P} of the Chern connection of a Finsler manifold are investigated. The completeness of the nullity foliation associated with the nullity distribution NR\N_{R^\ast} is proved. Two counterexamples are given: the first shows that NR\N_{R^\ast} does not coincide with the kernel distribution of \, \overastR\overast{R}; the second illustrates that NP\N_{P^\ast} is not completely integrable. We give a simple class of a non-Berwaldian Landsberg spaces with singularities.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.0193,
  title  = {Nullity distributions associated with Chern connection},
  author = {Nabil L. Youssef and S. G. Elgendi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0193},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Major modifications, An Example added at the end of the paper, Some Maple calculations inserted

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