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Yamabe flow on Berwald manifolds

Shahroud Azami

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

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Asadollah Razavi

Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave., Teheran, Iran

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219887815500255Cited by:8 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. We introduce the Yamabe flow on Finsler manifolds and we will prove the existence and uniqueness for solution of Yamabe flow on Berwald manifolds.

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AMSC: 53C44, 53C60

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