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In this paper, we consider locally dually flat (α, β)-metrics with isotropic S-curvature and find some necessary and sufficient conditions under which these metrics reduce to locally Minkowskian metrics.
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Tayebi, A., Peyghan, E. & Sadeghi, H. On locally dually flat (α, β)-metrics with isotropic S-curvature. Indian J Pure Appl Math 43, 521–534 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13226-012-0031-2
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