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2020/96/1-2 (4) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2020.8453 — pp. 45-62

Classification of 3-dimensional Landsbergian $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics

Authors: Akbar Tayebi and Behzad Najafi

Abstract:

In this paper, we classify the class of 3-dimensional $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics with vanishing Landsberg curvature. More precisely, we show that these metrics belong to one of the following main classes: Berwald metrics which contain the Randers or Kropina metrics, or satisfy an ODE. Some of the well-known unicorns are special solutions of this ODE.

Keywords: Landsberg metric, Berwald metric, $(α, β)$-metric, unicorn, Moór frame

Mathematics Subject Classification: 53B40, 53C60