in this paper the general relatively isotropic l -curvature finsler metrics are studied. it isshown that on constant relatively landsberg spaces, the concepts of weakly landsbergian, landsbergianand generalized landsbergian metrics are equivalent. some necessary conditions for a relativelyisotropic l -curvature finsler metric to be a riemannian metric are also found.

Randers manifolds are studied in the framework of the pullback bundle formalism, with the aid of intrinsic methods only. After checking a sufficient condition for a Randers manifold to be a Finsler manifold, we provide a systematic description of the Riemann-Finsler metric, the canonical spray, the Barthel endomorphism, the Berwald connection, the Cartan tensors and the Cartan vector field in t...

We present an introduction to the geometry of higher order vector and co–vector bundles (including higher order generalizations of the Finsler geometry and Kaluza– Klein gravity) and review the basic results on Clifford and spinor structures on spaces with generic local anisotropy modeled by anholonomic frames with associated nonlinear connection structures. We emphasize strong arguments for ap...

For the general class of pseudo-Finsler spaces with (α,β)-metrics, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions such that these admit a Finsler spacetime structure. This means fundamental tensor has Lorentzian signature on conic subbundle tangent bundle thus existence cone future-pointing time-like vectors is ensured. The identified (α,β)-Finsler spacetimes are candidates for applications i...

We develop the method of anholonomic frames with associated nonlinear connec-tion (in brief, N–connection) structure and show explicitly how geometries with lo-cal anisotropy (various type of Finsler–Lagrange–Cartan–Hamilton geometry) can bemodeled in the metric–affine spaces. There are formulated the criteria when such gen-eralized Finsler metrics are effectively induced in the...

The well-known Funk metric F (x, y) is projectively flat with constant flag curvature K = −1/4 and the Hilbert metric Fh(x, y) := (F (x, y) + F (x,−y))/2 is projectively flat with constant curvature K = −1. These metrics are the special solutions to Hilbert’s Fourth Problem. In this paper, we construct a non-trivial R-flat spray using the Funk metric. It is then an inverse problem in the calcul...

If D is a bounded convex domain in C , then the work of Lempert [L] and Royden-Wong [RW] (see also [A]) show that given any point p ∈ D and any non-zero tangent vector v ∈ C at p, there exists a holomorphic map φ:U → D from the unit disk U ⊂ C into D passing through p and tangent to v in p which is an isometry with respect to the hyperbolic distance of U and the Kobayashi distance of D. Further...

The aim of this paper is to show that the holonomy group of a non-Riemannian Finsler manifold of constant curvature with dimension n > 2 cannot be a compact Lie group and hence it cannot occur as the holonomy group of any Riemannian manifold. This result gives a positive answer to the following problem formulated by S. S. Chern and Z. Shen: Is there a Finsler manifold whose holonomy group is no...