Finsler manifolds with non-Riemannian holonomy

Details Finsler manifolds with non-Riemannian holonomy Finsler manifolds with non-Riemannian holonomy

2009-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/0904.0470v4

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

to appear in Houston Journal of Mathematics

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The aim of this paper is to show that holonomy properties of Finsler manifolds can be very different from those of Riemannian manifolds. We prove that the holonomy group of a positive definite non-Riemannian Finsler manifold of non-zero constant curvature with dimension >2 cannot be a compact Lie group. Hence this holonomy group does not occur as the holonomy group of any Riemannian manifold. In addition, we provide an example of left invariant Finsler metric on the Heisenberg group, so that its holonomy group is not a (finite dimensional) Lie group. These results give a positive answer to the following problem formulated by S. S. Chern and Z. Shen: "Is there a Finsler manifold whose holonomy group is not the holonomy group of any Riemannian manifold?"

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