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Isochronous centers and flat Finsler metrics (I)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2024
Abstract
The local structure of rotationally symmetric Finsler surfaces with vanishing flag curvature is completely determined in this paper. A geometric method for constructing such surfaces is introduced. The construction begins with a planar vector field X that depends on two functions of one variable. It is shown that the flow of X could be used to generate a generalized Finsler surface with zero flag curvature. Moreover, this generalized structure reduces to a regular Finsler metric if and only if X has an isochronous center. By relating X to a Liénard system, we obtain the isochronicity condition and discover numerous new examples of complete flat Finsler surfaces, depending on an odd function and an even function.
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- © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Canadian Mathematical Society
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12131012).
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