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    Einstein Finsler Metrics and Killing Vector Fields on Riemannian Manifolds

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    In this paper, we use a Killing form on a Riemannian manifold to construct a class of Finsler metrics. We find equations that characterize Einstein metrics among this class. In particular, we construct a family of Einstein metrics on S3S^3 with Ric=2F2{\rm Ric} = 2 F^2, Ric=0{\rm Ric}=0 and Ric=βˆ’2F2{\rm Ric}=- 2 F^2, respectively. This family of metrics provide an important class of Finsler metrics in dimension three, whose Ricci curvature is a constant, but the flag curvature is not
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