Constructing Complete Projectively Flat Connections

Constructing Complete Projectively Flat Connections

Theorem 1. Let T 2 be the two dimensional torus. Then for any positive integer m there is a complete torsion free projectively flat connection, ∇, on T 2 such that for any point p ∈ T 2 there is a point q ∈ T 2 with the property that any broken ∇-geodesic between p and q has at least m breaks. Moreover if T 2 is viewed as a Lie group in the usual manner, this connection is invariant under trans...

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Projectively Flat Finsler Metrics of Constant Curvature

It is the Hilbert’s Fourth Problem to characterize the (not-necessarilyreversible) distance functions on a bounded convex domain in R such that straight lines are shortest paths. Distance functions induced by a Finsler metric are regarded as smooth ones. Finsler metrics with straight geodesics said to be projective. It is known that the flag curvature of any projective Finsler metric is a scala...

On a class of locally projectively flat Finsler metrics

‎In this paper we study Finsler metrics with orthogonal invariance‎. ‎We‎ ‎find a partial differential equation equivalent to these metrics being locally projectively flat‎. ‎Some applications are given‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎we give an explicit construction of a new locally projectively flat Finsler metric of vanishing flag curvature which differs from the Finsler metric given by Berwald in 1929.

Flat Projective Connections