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On sprays with vanishing X-curvature

Differential Geometry 2020-08-19 v1

Abstract

Every Riemannian metric or Finsler metric on a manifold induces a spray via its geodesics. In this paper, we discuss several expressions for the X-curvature of a spray. We show that the sprays obtained by a projective deformation using the S-curvature always have vanishing X-curvature. Then we establish the Beltrami Theorem for sprays with X=0

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@article{arxiv.2008.07732,
  title  = {On sprays with vanishing X-curvature},
  author = {Zhongmin Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07732},
  year   = {2020}
}