On Non-Positively Curved Homogeneous Finsler Metrics

TL;DR

This paper establishes rigidity results for non-positively curved homogeneous Finsler metrics, extending known theorems and characterizing when such metrics are Riemannian or Minkowskian.

Contribution

It generalizes key rigidity theorems for homogeneous Finsler spaces, including extensions of Hu-Deng and Szabó's results, to broader classes of metrics.

Findings

Homogeneous Finsler spaces with non-positive flag curvature and isotropic S-curvature are Riemannian or Minkowskian.

Homogeneous Berwald surfaces with non-positive flag curvature are Riemannian or Minkowskian.

Homogeneous (l,eta)-metrics with non-positive flag curvature are Riemannian or Minkowskian.

Abstract

In this paper, we prove two rigidity results for non-positively curved homogeneous Finsler metrics. Our first main result yields an extension of Hu-Deng's well-known result proven for the Randers metrics. Indeed, we prove that every connected homogeneous Finsler space with non-positive flag curvature and isotropic S-curvature is Riemannian or locally Minkowskian. We extend the Szab\'{o}'s rigidity theorem for Berwald surfaces and show that homogeneous isotropic Berwald metrics with non-positive flag curvature are Riemannian or locally Minkowskian. We prove that a homogeneous $(\alpha, \beta)$-metrics has isotropic mean Berwald curvature if and only if it has vanishing mean Berwald curvature generalizing result previously only known in the case of Randers metrics. Our second main result is to show that every homogeneous $(\alpha,\beta)$-metric with non-positive flag curvature and almost isotropic S-curvature is Riemannian or locally Minkowskian.