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. ...

The aim of the present paper is to provide an intrinsic investigation of the fundamental properties of the most important geometric objects associated with the fundamental linear connections on a Finsler manifold. We introduce and investigate intrinsically the most general properties concerning the torsion tensor fields and the curvature tensor fields associated with a certain regular connectio...

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...

Asking that the metric of a complex Finsler space should be strong convex, Abate and Patrizio ([1]) associate to the real tangent bundle a real Finsler metric for which they analyze the relation between Cartan (real) connection of the obtained space and the real image of Chern-Finsler complex connection. Following the same ideas, in the present paper we shall deal with the more general case of ...

It is proved that all invariant functions of a complex Finsler manifold can be totally recovered from the torsion and curvature of the connection introduced by Kobayashi for holomorphic vector bundles with complex Finsler structures. Equations of the geodesics and Jacobi fields of a generic complex Finsler manifold, expressed by means Kobayashi’s connection, are also derived.

We survey the geometry of Lagrange and Finsler spaces and discuss the issues related to the definition of curvature of nonholonomic manifolds enabled with nonlinear connection structure. It is proved that any commutative Riemannian geometry (in general, any Riemann– Cartan space) defined by a generic off–diagonal metric structure (with an additional affine connection possessing nontrivial torsi...

The book “Handbook of Finsler geometry” has been included with a CD containing an elegant Maple package, FINSLER, for calculations in Finsler geometry. Using this package, an example concerning a Finsler generalization of Einstein’s vacuum field equations was treated. In this example, the calculation of the components of the hv-curvature of Cartan connection leads to wrong expressions. On the o...

In this paper we continue the study of the complex Beil metrics, in complex Finsler geometry, [18]. Primarily, we determine the main geometric objects corresponding to these metrics, e.g. the Chern-Finsler complex non-linear connection, the Chern-Finsler complex linear connection and the holomorphic curvature. We focus our study on the cases when a complex Finsler space, endowed with a complex ...

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...