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The Geometry of Spherically Symmetric Finsler Manifolds

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Two Finsler metrics on a manifold are said to be (pointwise) projectively related (projectively equivalent in an alternative terminology in [13]), if they have the same geodesics as point sets.

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  1. College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Enli Guo

  2. School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Xiaohuan Mo

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Guo, E., Mo, X. (2018). Spherically Symmetric W-Quadratic Metrics. In: The Geometry of Spherically Symmetric Finsler Manifolds. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1598-5_8

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