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2022/100/1-2 (7) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2022.9060 — pp. 101-118

Invariant volumes, weakly-Berwald Finsler spaces, and the Landsberg—Berwald problem

Authors: Mike Crampin

Abstract:

I discuss invariance of volume forms on a Finsler space. I show that a Finsler space which admits a vertically-invariant volume form which is invariant by the geodesic spray — a geodesically-invariant vertically-invariant volume form — is weakly Berwald, and deduce that a Landsberg space admits a geodesically-invariant vertically-invariant volume form if and only if the space is a Berwald space. I illustrate the ideas by considering Randers spaces.

Keywords: Finsler spaces: Berwald, weakly-Berwald, and Landsberg spaces, Randers spaces, invariant volume forms, S-curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification: 53B40