This article is an exposition of four loosely related remarks on the geometry of Finsler manifolds with constant positive flag curvature. The first remark is that there is a canonical Kähler structure on the space of geodesics of such a manifold. The second remark is that there is a natural way to construct a (not necessarily complete) Finsler n-manifold of constant positive flag curvature out ...

‎Based on a definition for circle in Finsler space‎, ‎recently proposed by one of the present authors and Z‎. ‎Shen‎, ‎a natural definition of extrinsic sphere in Finsler geometry is given and it is shown that a connected submanifold of a Finsler manifold is totally umbilical and has non-zero parallel mean curvature vector field‎, ‎if and only if its circles coincide with circles of the ambient...

In this paper, we prove a global rigidity theorem for negatively curved Finsler metrics on a compact manifold of dimension n ≥ 3. We show that for such a Finsler manifold, if the flag curvature is a scalar function on the tangent bundle, then the Finsler metric is of Randers type. We also study the case when the Finsler metric is locally projectively flat.

A generalization of Finsler structures on surfaces is proposed and the differential invariants of such structures are developed. The information obtained is then used to construct examples of Finsler structures and generalized Finsler structures which satisfy various interesting curvature conditions. In particular, examples are constructed of non-Riemannian Finsler structures on the 2-sphere wh...

1 We develop the method of anholonomic frames with associated nonlinear connection (in brief, N–connection) structure and show explicitly how geometries with local anisotropy (various type of Finsler–Lagrange–Cartan–Hamilton spaces) can be modelled on the metric–affine spaces. There are formulated the criteria when such generalized Finsler metrics are effectively defined in the Einstein, telepa...

The flag curvature of the Numata Finsler structures is shown to admit a nontrivial prolongation to the one-dimensional case, revealing an unexpected link with the Schwarzian derivative of the diffeomorphisms associated with these Finsler structures. Mathematics Subject Classification 2000: 58B20, 53A55 1 Finsler structures in a nutshell 1.1 Finsler metrics A Finsler structure is a pair (M,F ) w...

Methods of estimating (Riemannian and Finsler) filling volumes by using nonexpanding maps to Banach spaces of L∞-type are developed and generalized. For every Finsler volume functional (such as the Busemann volume or the Holmes– Thompson volume), a natural extension is constructed from the class of Finsler metrics to all Lipschitz metrics, and the notion of area is defined for Lipschitz surface...

In this paper, we construct a framed f -structure on the slit tangent space of a Rizza manifold. This induces on the indicatrix bundle an almost contact metric. We find the conditions under which this structure reduces to a contact or to a Sasakian structure. Finally we study these structures on Kählerian Finsler manifolds. M.S.C. 2010: 53B40, 53C60, 32Q60, 53C15.

For the general class of pseudo-Finsler spaces with (α,β)-metrics, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions such that these admit a Finsler spacetime structure. This means fundamental tensor has Lorentzian signature on conic subbundle tangent bundle thus existence cone future-pointing time-like vectors is ensured. The identified (α,β)-Finsler spacetimes are candidates for applications i...

In this paper, it is elaborated the theory the Ricci flows for manifolds enabled with nonintegrable (nonholonomic) distributions defining nonlinear connection structures. Such manifolds provide a unified geometric arena for nonholonomic Riemannian spaces, Lagrange mechanics, Finsler geometry, and various models of gravity (the Einstein theory and string, or gauge, generalizations). We follow th...