A particular Finsler-metric proposed in [1,2] and describing a geometry with a preferred null direction is characterized here as belonging to a subclass contained in a larger class of Finsler-metrics with one or more preferred directions (null, spaceor timelike). The metrics are classified according to their group of isometries. These turn out to be isomorphic to subgroups of the Poincaré (Lore...

in this paper, the matsumoto metric with special ricci tensor has been investigated. it is proved that, if  is ofpositive (negative) sectional curvature and f is of  -parallel ricci curvature with constant killing 1-form ,then (m,f) is a riemannian einstein space. in fact, we generalize the riemannian result established by akbar-zadeh.

Recently the present authors introduced a general class of Finsler connections which leads to a smart representation of connection theory in Finsler geometry and yields to a classification of Finsler connections into the three classes. Here the properties of one of these classes namely the Berwald-type connections which contains Berwald and Chern(Rund) connections as a special case is studied. ...

It is shown that the projectivised tangent bundle of Finsler spaces with the Chern connection has a contact metric structure under a conformal transformation with certain condition of the Finsler function and moreover it is locally isometric to E × Sm−1(4) for m > 2 and flat for m = 2 if and only if the Cartan tensor vanishes, i.e., the Finsler space is a Riemannian manifold. M.S.C. 2000: 53C60...

In 1977, M. Matsumoto and R. Miron [9] constructed an orthonormal frame for an n-dimensional Finsler space, called ‘Miron frame’. The present authors [1, 2, 3, 10, 11] discussed four-dimensional Finsler spaces equipped with such frame. M. Matsumoto [7, 8] proved that in a three-dimensional Berwald space, all the main scalars are h-covariant constants and the h-connection vector vanishes. He als...

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...

Following the study on volume of indicatrices in a real Finsler space, in this paper we are investigating some volume properties of the indicatrix considered in an arbitrary fixed point of a complex Finsler manifold. Since for each point of a complex Finsler space the indicatrix is an embedded CR-hypersurface of the punctured holomorphic tangent bundle, by means of its normal vector, the volume...

here, a finsler manifold $(m,f)$ is considered with corresponding curvature tensor, regarded as $2$-forms on the bundle of non-zero tangent vectors. certain subspaces of the tangent spaces of $m$ determined by the curvature are introduced and called $k$-nullity foliations of the curvature operator. it is shown that if the dimension of foliation is constant, then the distribution is involutive a...

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 . ...