On the classification of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces

In this paper, we give the classification of some special types of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces. We first present a general principle to classify weakly symmetric Finsler spaces and also give a method to figure out the Berwald spaces among the class of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces. Then we give an explicit classification of weakly symmetric Finsler spaces with reductive isometric groups as well as the left invariant weakly symmetric Finsler metrics on nilpotent Lie groups of the Heisenberg type. As an application, we obtain a large number of high-dimensional examples of reversible Finsler spaces which are non-Berwaldian and with vanishing S-curvature, a kind of spaces which are sought after in an open problem of Z. Shen.     

Locally symmetric positively curved Finsler spaces

We showed that any compact locally symmetric Finsler metric with positive flag curvature must be Riemannian. Dedicated to Professor Karsten Grove on the occassion of his sixtieth birthday Received: 8 May 2006     

Locally symmetric Finsler spaces in negative curvature

É. Cartan introduced in 1926 the Riemannian locally symmetric spaces, as the spaces whose curvature tensor is parallel. They also owe their name to the fact that, for each point, the geodesic reflexion is a local isometry. The aim of this Note is to announce a strong rigidity result for Finsler spaces. Namely, we show that a negatively curved locally symmetric (in the first sense above) Finsler space is isometric to a Riemann locally symmetric space.     

On projectively flat Finsler spaces

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 flatness of a special Lagrange space (Theorem 1). After this we obtain a second-order PDE system, whose solvability is necessary and sufficient for a Finsler space to be projectively flat (Theorem 2). We also derive a condition in order that an infinitesimal transformation takes geodesics of a Finsler space into geodesics. This yields a Killing type vector field (Theorem 3). In the last section we present a characterization of the Finsler spaces which are projectively flat in a parameter-preserving manner (Theorem 4), and we show that these spaces over ${\mathbb {R}}^{n}$ are exactly the Minkowski spaces (Theorems 5 and 6).     

On projective symmetries on Finsler spaces

There are two definitions of Einstein-Finsler spaces introduced by Akbar-Zadeh, which we will show is equal along the integral curves of I-invariant projective vector fields. The sub-algebra of the C-projective vector fields, leaving the H-curvature invariant, has been studied extensively. Here we show on a closed Finsler space with negative definite Ricci curvature reduces to that of Killing vector fields. Moreover, if an Einstein-Finsler space admits such a projective vector field then the flag curvature is constant. Finally, a classification of compact isotropic mean Landsberg manifolds admitting certain projective vector fields is obtained with respect to the sign of Ricci curvature.     

Canonical connections on a rigged bundle and generalized Finsler spaces

Translated fromSibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 1251–1274, November–December, 1995.     

On disk-homogenous symmetric spaces

We prove a classification theorem for disk-homogeneous locally symmetric spaces.     

C-free Finsler spaces

A systematic survey is given of practically all studies of C-free Finsler spaces. A closed introduction is given and the fundamental theorems are stated. An investigation of projective objects of Finsler spaces with Randers metric is carried out. Physical applications are discussed briefly.Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya Problemy Geometrii, Vol. 11, pp. 65–88, 1980.     

Classification of five-dimensional generalized pointwise symmetric Riemannian spaces

Riemannian symmetric spaces have the following two classes of spaces as their natural generalizations: (A) the class ofGS-spaces (generalized symmetric Riemannian spaces); (B) the class ofGPS-spaces (generalized pointwise symmetric Riemannian spaces). A result due to O. Kowalski says that the relation between the two classes is (A) (B), the inclusion being strict. In the present paper the author proves that in dimension 5 the class (A) and the class (B) must coincide. Consequently the explicit classification of five-dimensional GPS-spaces is obtained.     

Totally geodesic hypersurfaces of four-dimensional generalized symmetric spaces

We prove that a four-dimensional generalized symmetric space does not admit any non-degenerate hypersurfaces with parallel second fundamental form, in particular non-degenerate totally geodesic hypersurfaces, unless it is locally symmetric. However, spaces which are known as generalized symmetric spaces of type C do admit non-degenerate parallel hypersurfaces and we verify that they are indeed symmetric. We also give a complete and explicit classification of all non-degenerate totally geodesic hypersurfaces of spaces of this type.     

On the fundamental equations of homogeneous Finsler spaces

By introducing the notion of single colored Finsler manifold, we deduce the curvature formulas of a homogeneous Finsler space. It results in a set of fundamental equations that are more elegant than the Riemannian case. Several applications of the equations are also supplied.     

On projective invariants of the complex Finsler spaces

In this paper we extend the results on projective changes of complex Finsler metrics obtained in Aldea and Munteanu (2012) [3], by the study of projective curvature invariants of a complex Finsler space. By means of these invariants, the notion of complex Douglas space is then defined. A special approach is devoted to the obtaining of equivalence conditions for a complex Finsler space to be a Douglas one. It is shown that any weakly Kähler Douglas space is a complex Berwald space. A projective curvature invariant of Weyl type characterizes complex Berwald spaces. These must be either purely Hermitian of constant holomorphic curvature, or non-purely Hermitian of vanishing holomorphic curvature. Locally projectively flat complex Finsler metrics are also studied.