On Sprays of Scalar Curvature and Metrizability

DOI10.1007/S12220-022-01165-XarXiv2205.11892MaRDI QIDQ6400021

Guojun Yang

Publication date: 24 May 2022

Abstract: Every Finsler metric naturally induces a spray but not so for the converse. The notion for sprays of scalar (resp. isotropic) curvature has been known as a generalization for Finsler metrics of scalar (resp. isotropic) flag curvature. In this paper, a new notion, sprays of constant curvature, is introduced and especially it shows that a spray of isotropic curvature is not necessarily of constant curvature even in dimension $nge3$. Further, complete conditions are given for sprays of isotropic (resp. constant) curvature to be Finsler-metrizabile. As applications of such a result, the local structure is determined for locally projectively flat Berwald sprays of isotropic (resp. constant) curvature which are Finsler-metrizable, and some more sprays of isotropic curvature are discussed for their metrizability. Besides, the metrizability problem is also investigated for sprays of scalar curvature under certain curvature conditions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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