Douglas-Square Metrics with Vanishing Mean Stretch Curvature

Year 2019, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 188 - 201, 03.10.2019

Akbar Tayebi Neda Izadian

https://doi.org/10.36890/iejg.628080

Abstract

Keywords

Douglas metric, square metric, stretch metric, Berwald metric

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