On Locally Dually and Projectively Flat Almost Rational Finsler Metrics

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate Almost Rational Finsler (AR-Finsler) metrics, a class of Finsler metrics whose fundamental tensor admits a decomposition $g_{ij}(x,y)=η(x,y)a_{ij}(x,y),$ where $η$ is a positive smooth function and $a_{ij}$ is rational in the fiber variables. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for local dual flatness and local projective flatness of AR-Finsler metrics. Furthermore, we obtain a compatibility relation characterizing AR-Finsler metrics that are simultaneously locally dually flat and locally projectively flat. As an application, we establish a rigidity result for AR-Finsler. Motivated by these results and several known rigidity phenomena in special classes of Finsler metrics, we formulate a conjecture concerning the local Minkowskianity of AR-Finsler metrics that are both locally dually flat and locally projectively flat. Several examples are presented to illustrate the theory.