Address: Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, 420 Machray Hall, 186 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada
E-mail: ievgen.bilokopytov@umanitoba.ca
Abstract: In this paper we study isometry-invariant Finsler metrics on inner product spaces over $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$, i.e. the Finsler metrics which do not change under the action of all isometries of the inner product space. We give a new proof of the analytic description of all such metrics. In this article the most general concept of the Finsler metric is considered without any additional assumptions that are usually built into its definition. However, we present refined versions of the described results for more specific classes of metrics, including the class of Riemannian metrics. Our main result states that for an isometry-invariant Finsler metric the only possible linear maps under which the metric is invariant are scalar multiples of isometries. Furthermore, we characterize the metrics invariant with respect to all linear maps of this type.
AMSclassification: primary 53B40; secondary 53C60, 58B20.
Keywords: Finsler metric, unitary invariance, isometries, Riemannian metric.
DOI: 10.5817/AM2017-3-141