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A Study of Tensors which Characterize a Hypersurface of a Finsler Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Gillian M. Brown
Gillian M. Brown*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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The literature on Finsler geometry contains more than one definition for the normal curvature vector of a hypersurface and for coefficients of the second fundamental form; see Berwald (1), Davies (3), and Rund (5). In the first case this situation has arisen from the basically different approach to the subject adopted by the authors; Davies, following the locally Euclidean school and Rund the locally Minkowskian theory. In both cases, a comparison of the definitions shows that they are linked by expressions in a vector Mαwhich was introduced in the paper by Rund (7).

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 20 , 1968 , pp. 1025 - 1036
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

Footnotes

This paper comprises a portion of a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Toronto.

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