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Ricci Curvature of Finsler Metrics by Warped Product

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In the present work, we consider a class of Finsler metrics using the warped product notion introduced by B. Chen, Z. Shen and L. Zhao (2018), with another “warping”, one that is consistent with the form of metrics modeling static spacetimes and simplified by spherical symmetry over spatial coordinates, which emerged from the Schwarzschild metric in isotropic coordinates. We will give the PDE characterization for the proposed metrics to be Ricci-flat and construct explicit examples. Whenever possible, we describe both positive-definite solutions and solutions with Lorentz signature. For the latter, the 4-dimensional metrics may also be studied as Finsler spacetimes.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/22680
Date05 1900
CreatorsMarcal, Patricia
ContributorsShen, Zhongmin, Buse, Olguta, Ramras, Daniel, Roeder, Roland
Source SetsIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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