Parallel one forms on special Finsler manifolds
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 . 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 . 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 -metrics and generalized -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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16 pages