• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 2023

The purpose of this paper is to establish the notion of semi-Riemannian manifolds M with the homogeneous geodesics, and investigate properties about certain homogeneity.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.6
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• pp.1607-1620
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• 2023

In this paper, we mainly study the problem of the existence of homogeneous geodesics in sub-Finsler manifolds. Firstly, we obtain a characterization of a homogeneous curve to be a geodesic. Then we show that every compact connected homogeneous sub-Finsler manifold and Carnot group admits at least one homogeneous geodesic through each point. Finally, we study a special class of ℓ^p-type bi-invariant metrics on compact semi-simple Lie groups. We show that every homogeneous curve in such a metric space is a geodesic. Moreover, we prove that the Alexandrov curvature of the metric space is neither non-positive nor non-negative.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.291-297
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• 2006

We find unit Killing vectors and homogeneous geodesics on the Lie group with Lie algebra $\mathbf{a}{\oplus}_p\mathbf{r}$, where $\mathbf{a}$ and $\mathbf{r}$ are abelian Lie algebra of dimension n and 1, respectively.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.1887-1892
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• 2016

It is well known that the helicoids are the only ruled minimal surfaces in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$. The similar characterization for ruled minimal surfaces can be given in many other 3-dimensional homogeneous spaces. In this note we consider the product space $M{\times}{\mathbb{R}}$ for a 2-dimensional manifold M and prove that $M{\times}{\mathbb{R}}$ has a nontrivial minimal surface ruled by horizontal geodesics only when M has a Clairaut parametrization. Moreover such minimal surface is the trace of the longitude rotating in M while translating vertically in constant speed in the direction of ${\mathbb{R}}$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.1
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• pp.33-46
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• 2023

Geodesic orbit spaces are homogeneous Finsler spaces whose geodesics are all orbits of one-parameter subgroups of isometries. Such Finsler spaces have vanishing S-curvature and hold the Bishop-Gromov volume comparison theorem. In this paper, we obtain a complete description of invariant (α₁, α₂)-metrics on spheres with vanishing S-curvature. Also, we give a description of invariant geodesic orbit (α₁, α₂)-metrics on spheres. We mainly show that a Sp(n + 1)-invariant (α₁, α2)-metric on S⁴ⁿ⁺³ = Sp(n + 1)/Sp(n) is geodesic orbit with respect to Sp(n + 1) if and only if it is Sp(n + 1)Sp(1)-invariant. As an interesting consequence, we find infinitely many Finsler spheres with vanishing S-curvature which are not geodesic orbit spaces.