The current state of play in the Landsberg-Berwald problem of Finsler geometry

• Mike Crampin ^[1]
  1. [1] Orchard Rising, Herrings Lane, Burnham Market, Norfolk, UK
• Localización: Extracta mathematicae, ISSN-e 0213-8743, Vol. 39, Nº 1, 2024, págs. 57-95
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.17398/2605-5686.39.1.57
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  • A progress report on the (still unresolved) Landsberg-Berwald problem of Finsler geometry: whether there can be non-Berwaldian regular Landsberg spaces

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