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    Clifford-Wolf Translations of Finsler spaces

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    In this paper, we study Clifford-Wolf translations of Finsler spaces. We first give a characterization of Clifford-Wolf translations of Finsler spaces in terms of Killing vector fields. In particular, we show that there is a natural correspondence between Clifford-Wolf translations and the Killing vector fields of constant length. In the special case of homogeneous Randers spaces, we give some explicit sufficient and necessary conditions for an isometry to be a Clifford-Wolf translation. Finally, we construct some explicit examples to explain some of the results of this paper.Comment: 13 page

    Rigidity of negatively curved geodesic orbit Finsler spaces

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    We prove some rigidity results on geodesic orbit Finsler spaces with non-positive curvature. In particular, we show that a geodesic Finsler space with strictly negative flag curvature must be a non-compact Riemannian symmetric space of rank one.Comment: 5 page

    Clifford-Wolf homogeneous Finsler metrics on spheres

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    An isometry of a Finsler space is called Clifford-Wolf translation (CW-translation) if it moves all points the same distance. A Finsler space (M,F)(M, F) is called Clifford-Wolf homogeneous (CW-homogeneous) if for any x,y∈Mx, y\in M there is a CW-translation σ\sigma such that σ(x)=y\sigma (x)=y. We prove that if FF is a homogeneous Finsler metric on the sphere SnS^n such that (Sn,F)(S^n, F) is CW-homogeneous, then FF must be a Randers metric. This gives a complete classification of CW-homogeneous Finsler metrics on spheres.Comment: 10 page
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