On the Berwald-Weyl Curvature
Differential Geometry
2024-07-11 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we study the Berwald-Weyl curvature which is defined for a spray/Finsler metric with a volume form. We obtain some expressions for the Berwald-Weyl curvature. This quantity is a projective invariant with respect to a fixed volume form. We prove that for any spray of scalar curvature on a manifold of dimension , the Berwald-Weyl curvature vanishes with respect to any volume form. We also show that for any Finsler metric of constant Ricci curvature and constant S-curvature, the Berwald-Weyl curvature vanishes with respect to the Busemann-Hausdorff volume form. This study leads to a new notion of BWeyl-flat sprays/Finsler metrics.
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@article{arxiv.2407.07272,
title = {On the Berwald-Weyl Curvature},
author = {Zhongmin Shen and Liling Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07272},
year = {2024}
}