Invariant volume forms and first integrals for geodesically equivalent Finsler metrics
Abstract
Two geodesically (projectively) equivalent Finsler metrics determine a set of invariant volume forms on the projective sphere bundle. Their proportionality factors are geodesically invariant functions and hence they are first integrals. Being 0-homogeneous functions, the first integrals are common for the entire projective class. In Theorem 1.1 we provide a practical and easy way of computing these first integrals as the coefficients of a characteristic polynomial.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2021
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2111.13374
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv211113374B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- Mathematical Physics;
- 53C60;
- 53B40;
- 53D25;
- 53A20
- E-Print:
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 2022