• Title of article

    Finsler Metrics with K = 0 and S = 0

  • Author/Authors

    SHEN، ZHONGMIN نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    -111
  • From page
    112
  • To page
    0
  • Abstract
    In the paper, we study the shortest time problem on a Riemannian space with an external force. We show that such problem can be converted to a shortest path problem on a Randers space. By choosing an appropriate external force on the Euclidean space, we obtain a non-trivial Randers metric of zero flag curvature. We also show that any positively complete Randers metric with zero flag curvature must be locally Minkowskian.
  • Keywords
    Atmospheric optics , Atmospheric and ocean optics , Atmospheric transmittance , Meteorology
  • Journal title
    CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
  • Record number

    72496