Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia
2. Department of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Abstract
<p>In this paper, for a given spray $ S $ on an $ n $-dimensional manifold $ M $, we investigated the geometry of $ S $-invariant functions. For an $ S $-invariant function $ {\mathcal P} $, we associated a vertical subdistribution $ {{\mathcal V}}_{\mathcal P} $ and found the relation between the holonomy distribution and $ {{\mathcal V}}_{\mathcal P} $ by showing that the vertical part of the holonomy distribution is the intersection of all spaces $ {{\mathcal V}}_{ {\mathcal F}_S} $ associated with $ {\mathcal F}_S $ where $ {\mathcal F}_S $ is the set of all Finsler functions that have the geodesic spray $ S $. As an application, we studied the Landsberg Finsler surfaces. We proved that a Landsberg surface with $ S $-invariant flag curvature is Riemannian or has a vanishing flag curvature. We showed that for Landsberg surfaces with non-vanishing flag curvature, the flag curvature is $ S $-invariant if and only if it is constant; in this case, the surface is Riemannian. Finally, for a Berwald surface, we proved that the flag curvature is $ H $-invariant if and only if it is constant.</p>
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
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