Randers Metrics of Isotropic S-Curvature
Randers Metrics of Isotropic S-Curvature
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10.1007/978-3-642-24888-7_3
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发表时间:
2012
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Xinyue Cheng;Z. Shen
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作者:
Xinyue Cheng;Z. Shen
There are several important geometric quantities in Finsler geometry. The Cartan torsionCis a primary quantity. There is another quantity which is determined by the Busemann-Hausdorff volume form, that is the so-called distortionτ. The vertical differential ofτon each tangent space gives rise to the mean Cartan torsion.C,τandIare the basic non-Riemannian geometric quantities which characterize Riemann metrics among Finsler metrics and are connected each other as (1.17) and (1.18). In this chapter, we are going to introduce a new quantity which is defined as a rate of change of the distortion along a geodesic.