The aim of this paper is to produce new examples of Riemannian and Finsler structures having as model a scalar deformation of conics inspired by the scaling transformation. It continues [4] from the point of view of relationship between quadratic polynomials (which provide equations of conics in dimension 2) and Finsler geometries. A type of Finslerian flow is introduced, based on the previous ...

A new hypersurface of Tzitzeica type is obtained in all three forms: parametric, implicit and explicit. To a two-parameters family of cubic Tzitzeica surfaces we associate a cubic Finsler function for which the regularity is expressed as the non-flatness of the Tzitzeica indicatrix. A natural relationship is obtained between cubic Tzitzeica surfaces and three-dimensional Berwald spaces with cub...

We investigate existence and uniqueness of p-means ep and the median e1 of a probability measure μ on a Finsler manifold, in relation with the convexity of the support of μ. We prove that ep is the limit point of a continuous time gradient flow. Under some additional condition which is always satisfied for p ≥ 2, a discretization of this path converges to ep. This provides an algorithm for dete...

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 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...

In this paper we define a complex adapted connection of type Bott on vertical bundle of a complex Finsler manifold. When this connection is flat we get a vertical vector valued cohomology. The notions are introduced by analogy with the real case for foliations. Finally, using the partial Bott connection we give a characterization of strongly Kähler-Finsler manifolds. 2000 Mathematics Subject Cl...

In this paper we obtain the conditions in which two complex Finsler metrics are projective, i.e. have the same geodesics as point sets. Two important classes of such metrics are submitted to our attention: conformal projective and weakly projective complex Finsler spaces. For each of them we study the transformations of the canonical connection. We pay attention for local projectivity with a pu...

Let Ω be a domain in a smooth complete Finsler manifold, and let G be the largest open subset of Ω such that for every x in G there is a unique closest point from ∂Ω to x (measured in the Finsler metric). We prove that the distance function from ∂Ω is in C k,α loc (G ∪ ∂Ω), k ≥ 2 and 0 < α ≤ 1, if ∂Ω is in C k,α .

We study non-reversible Finsler metrics with constant flag curvature 1 on S and show that the geodesic flow of every such metric is conjugate to that of one of Katok’s examples, which form a 1-parameter family. In particular, the length of the shortest closed geodesic is a complete invariant of the geodesic flow. We also show, in any dimension, that the geodesic flow of a Finsler metrics with c...