A class of Finsler metrics admitting first integrals

Abstract We use two non-Riemannian curvature tensors, the χ-curvature and the mean Berwald curvature to characterise a class of Finsler metrics admitting first integrals. This class includes Finsler metrics of scalar flag curvature.

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