On the problem of non Berwaldian Landsberg spaces
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society • 2020
Publication Information
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
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Supplementary Materials
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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
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
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