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Recent progress on homogeneous Finsler spaces with positive curvature

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Abstract

We survey our recent works concerning the classification of positively curved homogeneous Finsler spaces, and some related topics. In the final part, we present some open problems in this field.

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences and LPMC, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, People’s Republic of China

    Shaoqiang Deng

  2. College of Mathematics, Tianjin Normal University, 393 Binshui West Avenue, Tianjin, 300387, People’s Republic of China

    Ming Xu

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Deng, S., Xu, M. Recent progress on homogeneous Finsler spaces with positive curvature. European Journal of Mathematics 3, 974–999 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40879-017-0148-2

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