On generalized P-reducible Finsler manifolds

• Main Authors: Zamanzadeh Seyyed Mohammad, Najafi Behzad, Toomanian Megerdich
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2018-07-01
• Series: Open Mathematics
• Subjects: generalized p-reducible metric; randers metric; landsberg metric; 53b40; 53c60
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2018-0065

The class of generalized P-reducible manifolds (briefly GP-reducible manifolds) was first introduced by Tayebi and his collaborates [1]. This class of Finsler manifolds contains the classes of P-reducible manifolds, C-reducible manifolds and Landsberg manifolds. We prove that every compact GP-reducible manifold with positive or negative character is a Randers manifold. The norm of Cartan torsion plays an important role for studying immersion theory in Finsler geometry. We find the relation between the norm of Cartan torsion, mean Cartan torsion, Landsberg and mean Landsberg curvatures of the class of GP-reducible manifolds. Finally, we prove that every GP-reducible manifold admitting a concurrent vector field reduces to a weakly Landsberg manifold.