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The goal of this paper is to introduce and study analogues of the Euclidean Funk and Hilbert metrics on open convex subsets $\Omega$ of hyperbolic or spherical spaces. At least at a formal level, there are striking similarities among the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-20 Athanase Papadopoulos , Sumio Yamada

To any metric spaces there is an associated metric profile. The rectifiability of the metric profile gives a good notion of curvature of a sub-Riemannian space. We shall say that a curvature class is the rectifiability class of the metric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marius Buliga

In this paper we prove that, given a compact four dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold (M,g) with smooth boundary there exists a metric conformal to g with constant T-curvature, zero Q-curvature and zero mean curvature under generic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-07 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

We investigate projective spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature in $R^n$ and give the complete classification theorems. Furthermore, a new class of Finsler metrics with two parameters on n-dimensional disk are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Linfeng Zhou

In this article, we first show that for all compact Riemannian manifolds with non-empty smooth boundary and dimension at least 3, there exists a metric, pointwise conformal to the original metric, with constant scalar curvature in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Jie Xu

The well-known Funk metric F(x,y) is projectively flat with constant flag curvature K=-1/4 and the Hilbert metric H(x,y):=(F(x,y)+F(x,-y))/2 is projectively flat with constant curvature K=-1. These metrics are the special solutions to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongmin Shen

Singular Finsler metrics, such as Kropina metrics and $m$-Kropina metrics, have a lot of applications in the real world. In this paper, we classify a class of singular $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics which are locally projectively flat with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-15 Guojun Yang

We establish a regularity result for the metric on any 4-dimensional extremal K\"ahler manifold, and a weak compactness theorem on the space of such metrics. Specifically, the sectional curvature at a point is bounded when the quantity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-11 Brian Weber

In this paper, we prove two rigidity results for non-positively curved homogeneous Finsler metrics. Our first main result yields an extension of Hu-Deng's well-known result proven for the Randers metrics. Indeed, we prove that every…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-07 B. Najafi , A. Tayebi

We prove that every locally conformally flat metric on a closed, oriented hyperbolic 4-manifold with scalar curvature bounded below by -12 satisfies Schoen's conjecture. We also classify all closed Riemannian 4-manifolds of positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Jialong Deng

In this paper, we use the technique of Finslerian submersion to deduce a flag curvature formula for homogeneous Finsler spaces. Based on this formula, we give a complete classification of even-dimensional smooth coset spaces $G/H$ admitting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Ming Xu , Shaoqiang Deng , Libing Huang , Zhiguang Hu

In this paper, we establish the existence of conformal deformations that uniformize fourth order curvature on 4-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with positive conformal invariants. Specifically, we prove that any closed, compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Sanghoon Lee

The flag curvature is a natural Finsler extension of the sectional curvature in Riemannian geometry. However, there are many non-Riemannian quantities which interact with the flag curvature. In this paper, we introduce a notion of weighted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Zhongmin Shen , Runzhong Zhao

In this paper we prove that a Finsler metrics has constant flag curvature if and only if the curvature of the induced nonlinear connection satisfies an algebraic identity with respect to some arbitrary second rank tensors. Such algebraic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Ioan Bucataru , Dan Gregorian Fodor

Geometric quantization often produces not one Hilbert space to represent the quantum states of a classical system but a whole family $H_s$ of Hilbert spaces, and the question arises if the spaces $H_s$ are canonically isomorphic. [ADW] and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 László Lempert , Róbert Szőke

We study the following problem: given an Einstein metric on a manifold, characterize and study all Einstein metrics which are pointwise projective to the given one. By definition, two metrics are said to be pointwise projectively related if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongmin Shen

A piecewise flat Finsler metric on a triangulated surface $M$ is a metric whose restriction to any triangle is a flat triangle in some Minkowski space with straight edges. One of the main purposes of this work is to study the properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Ming Xu , Shaoqiang Deng

A Finsler space is said to be geodesically reversible if each oriented geodesic can be reparametrized as a geodesic with the reverse orientation. A reversible Finsler space is geodesically reversible, but the converse need not be true. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-02 Robert L. Bryant

Finsler metrics with relatively non-negative (non-positive, respectively), constant and isotropic stretch curvatures are investigated in this paper. In particular, it is proved that every non-Riemannian $(\alpha, \beta)$-metric with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Pejhman Vatandoost-Miandehi , Masoud Nikokar

In this paper, we classify the spherically symmetric Berwald metrics in $\mathbb{R}^n$. For the spherically symmetric Landsberg metrics, we prove that there do not exist any non-Berwald metrics among the regular case. The partial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Xiaohuan Mo , Linfeng Zhou