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In this work, the dual flatness, which is connected with Statistics and Information geometry, of general $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics (a new class of Finsler metrics) is studied. A nice characterization for such metrics to be dually flat under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Changtao Yu

In this paper, we study a class of Finsler metrics called general $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics, which are defined by a Riemannian metric $\alpha$ and a $1$-form $\beta$. We classify this class of Finsler metrics with isotropic Berwald curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Hongmei Zhu

In this paper, we study locally projectively flat Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature ${\bf K}$. We prove those are totally determined by their behaviors at the origin by solving some nonlinear PDEs. The classifications when ${\bf…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Benling Li

In this paper, we introduce the notion of one form deformation of sprays. The metrizability of the new spray, when the background spray is flat, is characterized. Therefore, we obtain new projectively flat metrics of constant flag curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-06 S. G. Elgendi

We study the cylindrical symmetric Finsler metrics. We obtain the system of differential equations of such metrics which are projectively flat. We give a family of solutions of this system. Examples are included.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Newton Solórzano , Víctor León

In this paper, we study a special class of Finsler metrics, $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics, defined by $F = \alpha \phi(\frac{\beta}{\alpha})$, where $\alpha$ is a Riemannian metric and $\beta$ is a 1-form. We find an equation that characterizes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Esra Sengelen Sevim , Semail Ulgen

First we present a short overview of the long history of projectively flat Finsler spaces. We give a simple and quite elementary proof of the already known condition for the projective flatness, and we give a criterion for the projective…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 T. Q. Binh , D. Cs. Kertész , L. Tamássy

This article is an exposition of four loosely related remarks on the geometry of Finsler manifolds with constant positive flag curvature. <p> The first remark is that there is a canonical Kahler structure on the space of geodesics of such a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Bryant

It is shown that a possibly irreversible $C^2$ Finsler metric on the torus, or on any other compact Euclidean space form, whose geodesics are straight lines is the sum of a flat metric and a closed $1$-form. This is used to prove that if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Juan-Carlos Álvarez Paiva , José Barbosa Gomes

In Finsler geometry, there are infinitely many models of constant curvature. The Funk metrics, the Hilbert-Klein metrics and the Bryant metrics are projectively flat with non-zero constant curvature. A recent example constructed by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongmin Shen

A new geometrical definition of naturally reductive Finsler manifold using geodeic graph is proposed, with a possible generalization. Based on a construction from a recent paper by the authors, Finsler metrics based on naturally reductive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Teresa Arias-Marco , Zdenek Dusek

In this paper, a class of holomorphic invariant metrics is introduced on the irreducible classical domains of type I-IV, which are strongly pseudoconvex complex Finsler metrics in the strict sense of M. Abate and G. Patrizio[2]. These…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Xiaoshu Ge , Chunping Zhong

For every Finsler metric $F$ we associate a Riemannian metric $g_F$ (called the Binet-Legendre metric). The transformation $F \mapsto g_F$ is $C^0$-stable and has good smoothness properties, in contrast to previous constructions. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Vladimir S. Matveev , Marc Troyanov

Singular Finsler metrics, such as Kropina metrics and $m$-Kropina metrics, have a lot of applications in the real world. In this paper, we study a class of singular Finsler metrics defined by a Riemann metric $\alpha$ and 1-form $\beta$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-15 Guojun Yang

In this paper we prove that every Riemannian metric on a locally conformally flat manifold with umbilic boundary can be conformally deformed to a scalar flat metric having constant mean curvature. This result can be seen as a generalization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

In Theorem 1, we generalize the results of Szabo for Berwald metrics that are not necessary strictly convex: we show that for every Berwald metric F there always exists a Riemannian metric affine equivalent to F. As an application we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Vladimir S. Matveev

Square metrics is an important class of Finsler metrics. Recently, we introduced a special class of non-regular Finsler metrics called singular square metrics. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a necessary and sufficient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Changtao Yu

In this paper, I will show how to use $\beta$-deformations to deal with dual flatness of $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics. It is a natural continuation of the research on dually flat Randers metrics(see arxiv:1209.1150). $\beta$-deformations is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Changtao Yu

In this work, we consider a class of Finsler metrics using the warped product notion introduced by Chen, S. and Zhao (2018), with another "warping", one that is consistent with static spacetimes. We will give the PDE characterization for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Patricia Marcal , Zhongmin Shen

In this paper, we give the general form of spherically symmetric Finsler metrics in $R^n$ and surprisedly find that many well-known Finsler metrics belong to this class. Then we explicitly express projective metrics of this type. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Linfeng Zhou