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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 the existence of geodesics in static Lorentz manifolds with singular boundary

Vieri Benci, Donato Fortunato, Fabio Giannoni (1991)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

In this Note we deal with the problem of the existence of geodesies joining two given points of certain non-complete Lorentz manifolds, of which the Schwarzschild spacetime is the simplest physical example.

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.

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