• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.153-163
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• 2002

The present paper is devoted to studying the condition for a Finsler space with the second approximate Matsumoto metric to be a Berwald space and to be a Douglas space.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.325-337
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• 2001

We consider the special hypersurface of the first approximate Matsumoto metric with $b_i(x)={\partial}_ib$ being the gradient of a scalar function b(x). In this paper, we consider the hypersurface of the first approximate Matsumoto space with the same equation b(x)=constant. We are devoted to finding the condition for this hypersurface to be a hyperplane of the first or second kind. We show that this hypersurface is not a hyper-plane of third kind.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.115-128
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• 2014

In this paper, we study the second approximate Matsumoto metric F = ${\alpha}+{\beta}+{\beta}^2/{\alpha}+{\beta}^3/{\alpha}^2$ on a manifold M. We prove that F is of scalar flag curvature and isotropic S-curvature if and only if it is isotropic Berwald metric with almost isotropic flag curvature.