We develop the method of anholonomic frames with associated nonlinear connec-tion (in brief, N–connection) structure and show explicitly how geometries with lo-cal anisotropy (various type of Finsler–Lagrange–Cartan–Hamilton geometry) can bemodeled in the metric–affine spaces. There are formulated the criteria when such gen-eralized Finsler metrics are effectively induced in the...

This paper is devoted to a study of geodesics of Finsler metrics via Zermelo navigation. We give a geometric description of the geodesics of the Finsler metric produced from any Finsler metric and any homothetic field in terms of navigation representation, generalizing a result previously only known in the case of Randers metrics with constant S-curvature. As its application, we present explici...

We determine a 2-codimensional para-CR structure on the slit tangent bundle T0M of a Finsler manifold (M,F ) by imposing a condition regarding the almost paracomplex structure P associated to F when restricted to the structural distribution of a framed para-f -structure. This condition is satisfied when (M,F ) is of scalar flag curvature (particularly constant) or if the Riemannian manifold (M,...

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 . ...

In this note the geometry of the indicatrix (I, L̃) is studied as a hypersurface of a complex Finsler space (M,L). The induced Chern-Finsler and Berwald connections are defined and studied. The induced Berwald connection coincides with the intrinsic Berwald connection of the indicatrix bundle. We considered a special projection of a geodesic curve on a complex Finsler space (M,L), called the ind...

Based on the analogue spacetime programme, and many other ideas currently mooted in “quantum gravity”, there is considerable ongoing speculation that the usual pseudoRiemannian (Lorentzian) manifolds of general relativity might eventually be modified at short distances. Two specific modifications that are often advocated are the adoption of Finsler geometries (or more specifically, pseudo-Finsl...

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 ...

Let Fm = (M,F ) be a Finsler manifold and G be the Sasaki– Finsler metric on the slit tangent bundle TM0 = TM {0} of M . We express the scalar curvature ρ̃ of the Riemannian manifold (TM0, G) in terms of some geometrical objects of the Finsler manifold Fm. Then, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for ρ̃ to be a positively homogenenous function of degree zero with respect to the fiber coo...

Some general Finsler connections are defined. Emphasis is being made on the Cartan tensor and its derivatives. Vanishing of the hv-curvature tensors of these connections characterizes Landsbergian, Berwaldian as well as Riemannian structures. This view point makes it possible to give a smart representation of connection theory in Finsler geometry and yields to a classification of Finsler connec...