Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 5 (2009), 045, 7 pages      arXiv:0904.2170      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2009.045
Contribution to the Special Issue “Élie Cartan and Differential Geometry”

The Explicit Construction of Einstein Finsler Metrics with Non-Constant Flag Curvature

Enli Guo a, Xiaohuan Mo b and Xianqiang Zhang c
a) College of Applied Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, China
b) Key Laboratory of Pure and Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
c) Tianfu College, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Mianyang 621000, China

Received December 08, 2008, in final form April 09, 2009; Published online April 14, 2009

Abstract
By using the Hawking Taub-NUT metric, this note gives an explicit construction of a 3-parameter family of Einstein Finsler metrics of non-constant flag curvature in terms of navigation representation.

Key words: Finsler manifold; Einstein Randers metric; Ricci curvature.

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