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J. Korean Math. Soc. 2020; 57(4): 873-892

Online first article March 12, 2020      Printed July 1, 2020

https://doi.org/10.4134/JKMS.j190436

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The Schwarzian derivative and conformal transformation on Finsler manifolds

Behroz Bidabad, Faranak Sedighi

Amirkabir University of Technology; Payame Noor University of Tehran

Abstract

Thurston, in 1986, discovered that the Schwarzian derivative has mysterious properties similar to the curvature on a manifold. After his work, there are several approaches to develop this notion on Riemannian manifolds. Here, a tensor field is identified in the study of global conformal diffeomorphisms on Finsler manifolds as a natural generalization of the Schwarzian derivative. Then, a natural definition of a Mobius mapping on Finsler manifolds is given and its properties are studied. In particular, it is shown that Mobius mappings are mappings that preserve circles and vice versa. Therefore, if a forward geodesically complete Finsler manifold admits a Mobius mapping, then the indicatrix is conformally diffeomorphic to the Euclidean sphere $ S^{n-1}$ in $ \mathbb{R}^n $. In addition, if a forward geodesically complete absolutely homogeneous Finsler manifold of scalar flag curvature admits a non-trivial change of Mobius mapping, then it is a Riemannian manifold of constant sectional curvature.

Keywords: Finsler, Schwarzian, Mobius, conformal, projective, concircular

MSC numbers: Primary 53C60, 58B20