Modern gauge theories of high energy physics, investigations in classical and quantum gravity and recent unifications of superstring theories (the so–called M– F– and S– theories) are characterized by a large application of geometric and topological methods. There are elaborated a number of Kaluza–Klein models of space–time and proposed different variants of compactification of higher dimension...

The flag curvature is a natural extension of the sectional curvature in Riemannian geometry, and the S-curvature is a non-Riemannian quantity which vanishes for Riemannian metrics. There are (incomplete) nonRiemannian Finsler metrics on an open subset in Rn with negative flag curvature and constant S-curvature. In this paper, we are going to show a global rigidity theorem that every Finsler met...

We model pseudo–Finsler geometries, with pseudo–Euclidean signatures of metrics, for two classes of four dimensional nonholonomic manifolds: a) tangent bundles with two dimensional base manifolds and b) pseudo–Riemannian/ Einstein manifolds. Such spacetimes are enabled with nonholonomic distributions and associated nonlinear connection structures and theirs metrics are solutions of the field eq...

It is shown that, on a manifold with a Finsler metric of Lorentzian signature, the lightlike geodesics satisfy the following variational principle. Among all lightlike curves from a point q (emission event) to a timelike curve γ (worldline of receiver), the lightlike geodesics make the arrival time stationary. Here “arrival time” refers to a parametrization of the timelike curve γ. This variati...

In this paper, we introduce a new deformable model for image segmentation, by reformulating a region based active contours energy into a geodesic contour energy involving a Finsler metric. As a result, we solve the region based active contours energy minimization problem without resorting to level set functions, but using a robust Eikonal equation framework. By sampling a set of control points ...

In this article, we review the current status of Finsler–Lagrange geometry and generalizations. The goal is to aid non–experts on Finsler spaces, but physicists and geometers skilled in general relativity and particle theories, to understand the crucial importance of such geometric methods for applications in modern physics. We also would like to orient mathematicians working in generalized Fin...

This paper is connected with the problem of describing path metric spaces which are homeomorphic to manifolds and biLipschitz homogeneous, i.e., whose biLipschitz homeomorphism group acts transitively. Our main result is the following. LetX = G/H be a homogeneous space of a Lie group G, and let d be a geodesic distance on X inducing the same topology. Suppose there exists a subgroup GS of G whi...