Abstract We extend the notion of a Lorentzian pp-wave to that Finsler spacetimes by providing coordinate-independent definition with respect Chern connection; our also includes special case plane wave. This treatment introduces suitable lightlike coordinates, in analogy case, and utilizes anisotropic calculus recently developed one authors. then Penrose’s “plane wave limit” setting spacetimes. ...

Given the class of Finsler spaces with Lorentzian signature [Formula: see text] on a manifold endowed timelike vector field satisfying at any point slit tangent bundle, pseudo-Riemannian metric defined is associated to fundamental tensor text]. Furthermore, an affine, torsion free connection Chern determined by The definition average does not make use Therefore, there no direct relation between...

An introduction into the theory of locally anisotropic spaces (modelled as vector bundles provided with compatible nonlinear and distinguished linear connections and metric structures and containing as particular cases different types of Kaluza–Klein and/or extensions of Lagrange and Finsler spaces ) is presented. The conditions for consistent propagation of closed strings in locally anisotropi...

The main purposes of this article are to extend our previous results on homogeneous sprays [15] to arbitrary secondorder differential equations, to show that locally diffeomorphic exponential maps can be defined for any of them, and to give a (possibly nonlinear) covariant derivative for any (possibly nonlinear) connection. In the process, we introduce vertically homogeneous connections. Unlike...

Our main observation concerns closed geodesics on surfaces M with a smooth Finsler metric, i.e. a function F : TM → [0,∞) which is a norm on each tangent space TpM , p ∈ M , which is smooth outside of the zero section in TM , and which is strictly convex in the sense that Hess(F ) is positive definite on TpM \ {0}. One calls a Finsler metric F symmetric if F (p,−v) = F (p, v) for all v ∈ TpM . ...

The well-known invariants of conics are computed for classes of Finsler and Lagrange spaces. For the Finsler case, some (α, β)-metrics namely Randers, Kropina and ”Riemann”-type metrics provides conics as indicatrices and a Randers-Funk metric on the unit disk is treated as example. The relations between algebraic and differential invariants of (α, β)-metrics are pointed out as a method to use ...

In this article, we report several new geometric and Lyapunov characterizations of incrementally stable systems on Finsler Riemannian manifolds. A intrinsic proof an important theorem in contraction analysis is given via the complete lift system. Based this, two are derived, namely, converse theorems, revelation connection between incremental stability equilibrium point, which second result rec...

We give a new and complete proof of the following theorem, discovered by Detlef Laugwitz: (forward) complete and connected finite dimensional Finsler manifolds admitting a proper homothety are Minkowski vector spaces. More precisely, we show that under these hypotheses the Finsler manifold is isometric to the tangent Minkowski vector space of the fixed point of the homothety via the exponential...

Abstract. The aim of this paper is to consider Busemann-type inequalities on Finsler manifolds. We actually formulate a rigidity conjecture: any Finsler manifold which is a Busemann NPC space is Berwaldian. This statement is supported by some theoretical results and numerical examples. The presented examples are obtained by using evolutionary techniques (genetic algorithms) which can be used fo...

in this paper, we study a class of finsler metrics which contains the class of p-reducible andgeneral relatively isotropic landsberg metrics, as special cases. we prove that on a compact finsler manifold,this class of metrics is nothing other than randers metrics. finally, we study this class of finsler metrics withscalar flag curvature and find a condition under which these metrics reduce to r...