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Parallel one forms on special Finsler manifolds

Differential Geometry 2024-12-13 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the existence of parallel 1-forms on specific Finsler manifolds. We demonstrate that Landsberg manifolds admitting a parallel 1-form have a mean Berwald curvature of rank at most n2n-2. As a result, Landsberg surfaces with parallel 1-forms are necessarily Berwaldian. We further establish that the metrizability freedom of the geodesic spray for Landsberg metrics with parallel 1-forms is at least 22. We figure out that some special Finsler metrics do not admit a parallel 1-form. Specifically, no parallel 1-form is admitted for any Finsler metrics of non-vanishing scalar curvature, among them the projectively flat metrics with non-vanishing scalar curvature. Furthermore, neither the general Berwald's metric nor the non-Riemannian spherically symmetric metrics admit a parallel 1-form. Consequently, we observe that certain (α,β)(\alpha,\beta)-metrics and generalized (α,β)(\alpha,\beta)-metrics do not admit parallel 1-forms.

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@article{arxiv.2412.08743,
  title  = {Parallel one forms on special Finsler manifolds},
  author = {Salah G. Elgendi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08743},
  year   = {2024}
}

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