Can we make a Finsler metric complete by a trivial projective change?

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2011-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/1112.5060v1

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Differential Geometry

11 pages, one figure, submitted to the proceedings of VI International Meeting on Lorentzian Geometry (Granada)

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A trivial projective change of a Finsler metric $F$ is the Finsler metric $F + df$. I explain when it is possible to make a given Finsler metric both forward and backward complete by a trivial projective change. The problem actually came from lorentz geometry and mathematical relativity: it was observed that it is possible to understand the light-line geodesics of a (normalized, standard) stationary 4-dimensional space-time as geodesics of a certain Finsler Randers metric on a 3-dimensional manifold. The trivial projective change of the Finsler metric corresponds to the choice of another 3-dimensional slice, and the existence of a trivial projective change that is forward and backward complete is equivalent to the global hyperbolicity of the space-time.

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