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ON THE PROBLEM OF NON-BERWALDIAN LANDSBERG SPACES

Part of: Infinite-dimensional manifolds Local differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2020

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S. G. ELGENDI*
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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Egypt email salah.ali@fsci.bu.edu.eg, salahelgendi@yahoo.com
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Abstract

We study the long-standing problem of the existence of non-Berwaldian Landsberg spaces from the perspective of conformal transformations. We calculate the Berwald and Landsberg tensors in terms of the T-tensor and show that there are Landsberg spaces with nonvanishing T-tensor. We give a necessary condition for a Landsberg space to be Berwaldian. We find conditions under which the Landsberg spaces cannot be Berwaldian and give examples of ($y$-local) non-Berwaldian Landsberg spaces.

Keywords

T-tensorLandsberg spaceBerwald spaceconformal transformationS3 -like spaceC2 -like spaceC-reducible space

MSC classification

Primary: 58B20: Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures
Secondary: 53B40: Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics)
Type
Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 102 , Issue 2 , October 2020 , pp. 331 - 341
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© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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