The navigation problems and the curvature properties on conic Kropina manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we study navigation problems on conic Kropina manifolds. Let $F(x, y)$ be a conic Kropina metric on an $n$-dimensional manifold $M$ and $V$ be a conformal vector field on $(M, F)$ with $F(x, - V_{x})\leq 1$. Let $\widetilde{F}= \widetilde{F} (x,y)$ be the solution of the navigation problem with navigation data $(F, V)$. We prove that $\widetilde{F}$ must be either a Randers metric or a Kropina metric. Then we establish the relationships between some curvature properties of $F$ and the corresponding properties of the new metric $\widetilde{F}$, which involve S-curvature, flag curvature and Ricci curvature.