The current state of play in the Landsberg-Berwald problem of Finsler geometry
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Finsler spaces, Landsberg spaces, Berwald spacesAbstract
A progress report on the (still unresolved) Landsberg-Berwald problem of Finsler geometry: whether there can be non-Berwaldian regular Landsberg spaces.
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