On Randers Change of Matsumoto Metric (communicated by Krishnan Lal Duggal)

Geometric Modeling of Dubins Airplane Movement and its Metric

The time-optimal trajectory for an airplane from some starting point to some final point is studied by many authors. Here, we consider the extension of robot planer motion of Dubins model in three dimensional spaces. In this model, the system has independent bounded control over both the altitude velocity and the turning rate of airplane movement in a non-obstacle space. Here, in this paper a g...

Shen's Processes on Finslerian Connections

Examples of Conics Arising in Two - Dimensional Finsler and Lagrange Geometries ∗

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 ...

On dually flat Randers metrics

The notion of dually flat Finsler metrics arise from information geometry. In this paper, we will study a special class of Finsler metrics called Randers metrics to be dually flat. A simple characterization is provided and some non-trivial explicit examples are constructed. In particular, We will show that the dual flatness of a Randers metric always arises from that of some Riemannian metric b...

On the Interplay between Lorentzian Causality and Finsler Metrics of Randers Type

We obtain some results in both, Lorentz and Finsler geometries, by using a correspondence between the conformal structure of standard stationary spacetimes on M = R × S and Randers metrics on S. In particular: (1) For stationary spacetimes: we give a simple characterization on when R×S is causally continuous or globally hyperbolic (including in the latter case, when S is a Cauchy hypersurface),...