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,...

It is the Hilbert’s Fourth Problem to characterize the (not-necessarilyreversible) distance functions on a bounded convex domain in R such that straight lines are shortest paths. Distance functions induced by a Finsler metric are regarded as smooth ones. Finsler metrics with straight geodesics said to be projective. It is known that the flag curvature of any projective Finsler metric is a scala...

In this paper we study invariant almost Hermitian geometry on generalized flag manifolds. We will focus providing examples of K\"ahler like scalar curvature metric, that is, structures $(g,J)$ satisfying $s=2s_{\rm C}$, where $s$ is Riemannian and $s_{\rm C}$ the Chern curvature.

This is an expository article based on the author’s lecture delivered at the conference Lie Theory and Its Applications in March 2011, UCSD. We discuss various notions of positivity and their relations with the study of the Ricci flow, including a proof of the assertion, due to Wolfson and the author, that the Ricci flow preserves the positivity of the complex sectional curvature. We discuss th...