SIGMA 8 (2012), 007, 4 pages      arXiv:1201.3575      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.007

On the Dimension of the Group of Projective Transformations of Closed Randers and Riemannian Manifolds

Vladimir S. Matveev
Institute of Mathematics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07737 Jena, Germany

Received January 18, 2012, in final form February 21, 2012; Published online February 23, 2012

Abstract
We construct a counterexample to Theorem 2 of [Rafie-Rad M., Rezaei B., SIGMA 7 (2011), 085, 12 pages].

Key words: Finsler metrics; Randers metrics; projective transformations.

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