The present paper deals with an intrinsic investigation of the notion of a concurrent π-vector field on the pullback bundle of a Finsler manifold (M,L). The effect of the existence of a concurrent π-vector field on some important special Finsler spaces is studied. An intrinsic investigation of a particular β-change, namely the energy β-change (L̃(x, y) = L(x, y) + B(x, y)with B := g(ζ, η); ζ bei...

The present paper deals with an intrinsic investigation of the notion of a concurrent π-vector field on the pullback bundle of a Finsler manifold (M,L). The effect of the existence of a concurrent π-vector field on some important special Finsler spaces is studied. An intrinsic investigation of a particular β-change, namely the energy β-change (L̃(x, y) = L(x, y) + B(x, y)with B := g(ζ, η); ζ bei...

The aim of the present paper is to provide a global presentation, as complete as we can, of the theory of special Finsler manifolds. We introduce and investigate globally (or intrinsically, free from local coordinates) many of the most important and commonly used special Finsler manifolds : locally Minkowskian, Berwald, Landesberg, general Landesberg, P -reducible, C-reducible, semi-C-reducible...

In this paper we study the Plateau problem for affine maximal hypersurfaces, which is the affine invariant analogue of the classical Plateau problem for minimal surfaces. In particular we formulate the affine Plateau problem as a geometric variational problem for the affine area functional, and we prove the existence and regularity of maximizers. As a special case, we obtain corresponding exist...

A multivariate polynomial P (x1, . . . , xn) with real coefficients is said to be absolutely positive from a real number B iff it and all of its non-zero partial derivatives of every order are positive for x1, . . . , xn ≥ B. We also call such B a bound for the absolute positiveness of P . The main goal of this paper is to devise a “nice” formula for computing a bound of a given polynomial. The...

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...

a cartan manifold is a smooth manifold m whose slit cotangent bundle 0t *m is endowed with a regularhamiltonian k which is positively homogeneous of degree 2 in momenta. the hamiltonian k defines a (pseudo)-riemannian metric ij g in the vertical bundle over 0 t *m and using it, a sasaki type metric on 0 t *m is constructed. a natural almost complex structure is also defined by k on 0 t *m in su...