Deicke's theorem

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Statement

Let be a Finsler manifold. Let be a point. The norm in the tangent space at is a Euclidean norm if and only if the mean Cartan torsion is 0 for all tangent vectors at .

Note that for a Riemannian metric, the norm is Euclidean on each tangent space, and the mean Cartan torsion is identically zero.