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Some results on curvature and topology of Finsler manifolds

Bing Ye Wu (2013)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

We investigate the curvature and topology of Finsler manifolds, mainly the growth of the fundamental group. By choosing a new counting function for the fundamental group that does not rely on the generators, we are able to discuss the topic in a more general case, namely, we do not demand that the manifold is compact or the fundamental group is finitely generated. Among other things, we prove that the fundamental group of a forward complete and noncompact Finsler n-manifold (M,F) with nonnegative...

Some results on projectively flat affine surfaces

Antonio Martínez, Francisco Milán (2005)

Banach Center Publications

We focus our attention on projectively flat affine surfaces. First, we classify the affine surfaces with projectively flat induced connection and constant Pick invariant. We also investigate the compact case and study how the geometry at the boundary determines the geometry of the surface.

Some results on the geometry of Minkowski plane

Bing Ye Wu (2010)

Archivum Mathematicum

In this paper we study the geometry of Minkowski plane and obtain some results. We focus on the curve theory in Minkowski plane and prove that the total curvature of any simple closed curve equals to the total Landsberg angle. As the result, the sum of oriented exterior Landsberg angles of any polygon is also equal to the total Landsberg angle, and when the Minkowski plane is reversible, the sum of interior Landsberg angles of any n -gon is n - 2 2 times of the total Landsberg angle. Our results generalizes...

Some rigidity theorems for Finsler manifolds of sectional flag curvature

Bing Ye Wu (2010)

Archivum Mathematicum

In this paper we study some rigidity properties for Finsler manifolds of sectional flag curvature. We prove that any Landsberg manifold of non-zero sectional flag curvature and any closed Finsler manifold of negative sectional flag curvature must be Riemannian.

Space-like Weingarten surfaces in the three-dimensional Minkowski space and their natural partial differential equations

Georgi Ganchev, Vesselka Mihova (2013)

Open Mathematics

On any space-like Weingarten surface in the three-dimensional Minkowski space we introduce locally natural principal parameters and prove that such a surface is determined uniquely up to motion by a special invariant function, which satisfies a natural non-linear partial differential equation. This result can be interpreted as a solution to the Lund-Regge reduction problem for space-like Weingarten surfaces in Minkowski space. We apply this theory to linear fractional space-like Weingarten surfaces...

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