On families of Finsler metrics
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| author | Saglam, Ismail Ohshika, Ken'Ichi Papadopoulos, Athanase |
| author_facet | Saglam, Ismail Ohshika, Ken'Ichi Papadopoulos, Athanase |
| contents | In this paper, we answer some natural questions on symmetrisation and more general combinations of Finsler metrics, with a view towards applications to Funk and Hilbert geometries and to metrics on Teichm{ü}ller spaces. For a general non-symmetric Finsler metric on a smooth manifold, we introduce two different families of metrics, containing as special cases the arithmetic and the max symmetrisations respectively of the distance functions associated with these Finsler metrics. We are interested in various natural questions concerning metrics in such a family, regarding its geodesics, its completeness, conditions under which such a metric is Finsler, the shape of its unit ball in the case where it is Finsler, etc. We address such questions in particular in the setting of Funk and Hilbert geometries, and in that of the Teichm{ü}ller spaces of several kinds of surfaces, equipped with Thurstonlike asymmetric metrics. |
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| spellingShingle | On families of Finsler metrics Saglam, Ismail Ohshika, Ken'Ichi Papadopoulos, Athanase Differential Geometry Geometric Topology Metric Geometry In this paper, we answer some natural questions on symmetrisation and more general combinations of Finsler metrics, with a view towards applications to Funk and Hilbert geometries and to metrics on Teichm{ü}ller spaces. For a general non-symmetric Finsler metric on a smooth manifold, we introduce two different families of metrics, containing as special cases the arithmetic and the max symmetrisations respectively of the distance functions associated with these Finsler metrics. We are interested in various natural questions concerning metrics in such a family, regarding its geodesics, its completeness, conditions under which such a metric is Finsler, the shape of its unit ball in the case where it is Finsler, etc. We address such questions in particular in the setting of Funk and Hilbert geometries, and in that of the Teichm{ü}ller spaces of several kinds of surfaces, equipped with Thurstonlike asymmetric metrics. |
| title | On families of Finsler metrics |
| topic | Differential Geometry Geometric Topology Metric Geometry |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03749 |