On the Geometry of the Indicatrix Bundle of a Finsler Manifold

Year 2025, Volume: 18 Issue: 2, 243 - 258

Mohamed Tahar Kadaoui Abbassi , Abderrahim Mekrami

https://doi.org/10.36890/iejg.1676428

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a class of metrics induced by $F$-natural metrics on the indicatrix bundle of a Finsler manifold. This class constitutes a four-parameter family that generalizes the well-known $g$-natural metrics on the unit tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold. Within this framework, we construct a three-parameter family of contact metric structures whose associated metrics are $F$-natural, and we establish that, in contrast to the Riemannian case —where all such $K$-contact metrics on unit tangent bundles are necessarily Sasakian— the corresponding structures in the Finslerian setting can be $K$-contact without being Sasakian. Furthermore, we provide a characterization of Finsler manifolds with positive constant flag curvature via the existence of $K$-contact structures on their indicatrix bundles.

Keywords

Finsler structure , indicatrix bundle , $F$-natural metric , contact structure

Ethical Statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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