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On some projectively flat finsler metrics in terms of hypergeometric functions

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Abstract

This paper gives an explicit construction of a family of projectively flat Finsler metrics by using hypergeometric functions and a special class of projectively flat Randers metrics.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Pure and Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Xiaohuan Mo

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China 11071005.

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Mo, X. On some projectively flat finsler metrics in terms of hypergeometric functions. Isr. J. Math. 184, 59–78 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-011-0059-8

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