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On the problem of non Berwaldian Landsberg spaces

Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society • 2020
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Authors Salah Elgendi
Keywords sprays; Berwlad metrics; Landsberg metrics
Journal Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Volume 102
Issue 2
Pages 331-341
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
Supplementary Materials Not Available
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