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...

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...

A tangent manifold is a pair (M, J) with J a tangent structure (J2 = 0, ker J = im J) on the manifold M . A systematic study of tangent manifolds was done by I. Vaisman in [5]. One denotes by HM any complement of im J := TV . Using the projections h and v on the two terms in the decomposition TM = HM ⊕TV one naturally defines an almost complex structure F on M . Adding to the pair (M, J) a Riem...

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...

We present a continuous and convex formulation for Finsler active contours using seed regions or utilizing a regional bias term. The utilization of general Finsler metrics instead of Riemannian metrics allows the segmentation boundary to favor appropriate locations (e.g. with strong image discontinuities) and suitable directions (e.g. aligned with dark to bright image gradients). Strong edges a...

here, the concept of electric capacity on finsler spaces is introduced and the fundamentalconformal invariant property is proved, i.e. the capacity of a compact set on a connected non-compact finslermanifold is conformal invariant. this work enables mathematicians and theoretical physicists to become morefamiliar with the global finsler geometry and one of its new applications.