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Mehdi Rafie-Rad

Mehdi Rafie-Rad

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0002-8214-3835
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 23493274700
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Faculty: Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
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Phone: 01135302464

Research

Title
SPECIAL PROJECTIVE ALGEBRA OF RANDERS METRICS OF CONSTANT S-CURVATURE
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Randers space; projective vector field; S-curvature
Year
2012
Journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMETRIC METHODS IN MODERN PHYSICS
DOI
Researchers Mehdi Rafie-Rad

Abstract

The collection of all projective vector fields on a Finsler space (M,F) is a finitedimensional Lie algebra with respect to the usual Lie bracket, called the projective algebra. A specific Lie sub-algebra of projective algebra of Randers spaces (called the special projective algebra) of non-zero constant S-curvature is studied and it is proved that its dimension is at most n(n+1)/2 . Moreover, a local characterization of Randers spaces whose special projective algebra has maximum dimension is established. The results uncover somehow the complexity of projective Finsler geometry versus Riemannian geometry.