In this paper, we prove two rigidity results for non-positively curved homogeneous Finsler metrics. Our first main result yields an extension of Hu-Deng's well-known proven the Randers Indeed, that every connected space with non-positive flag curvature and isotropic S-curvature is Riemannian or locally Minkowskian. We extend Szabó's theorem Berwald surfaces show metrics are second to (α,β)-metr...

By unicorns, I am referring to those mythical single-horned horse-like creatures for which there are only rumoured sightings by a privileged few. A similar situation exists in Finsler differential geometry. There, one has the hierarchy Euclidean ⊂ Minkowskian & Riemannian ⊂ Berwald ⊂ Landsberg among five families of metrics, in which the first two inclusions are known to be proper by virtue of ...

Recently the present authors introduced a general class of Finsler connections which leads to a smart representation of connection theory in Finsler geometry and yields to a classification of Finsler connections into the three classes. Here the properties of one of these classes namely the Berwald-type connections which contains Berwald and Chern(Rund) connections as a special case is studied. ...

In this paper we investigate the problem what kind of (two-dimensional) Finsler manifolds have a conformal change leaving the mixed curvature of the Berwald connection invariant? We establish a differential equation for such Finslerian energy functions and present the solutions under some simplification. As we shall see they are essentially the same as the singular Finsler metrics with constant...

In this paper we study generalized symmetric Berwald spaces. We show that if a Berwald space $(M,F)$ admits a parallel $s-$structure then it is locally symmetric. For a complete Berwald space which admits a parallel s-structure we show that if the flag curvature of $(M,F)$ is everywhere nonzero, then $F$ is Riemannian.

In this note the geometry of the indicatrix (I, L̃) is studied as a hypersurface of a complex Finsler space (M,L). The induced Chern-Finsler and Berwald connections are defined and studied. The induced Berwald connection coincides with the intrinsic Berwald connection of the indicatrix bundle. We considered a special projection of a geodesic curve on a complex Finsler space (M,L), called the ind...

Every Finsler metric naturally induces a spray but not so for the converse. The notion sprays of scalar (resp. isotropic) curvature has been known as generalization metrics flag curvature. In this paper, new notion, constant curvature, is introduced and especially it shows that isotropic necessarily even in dimension $$n\ge 3$$ . Further, complete conditions are given constant) to be metrizable...

The paper introduces the approach to construction of the Lagrangian of the field (fields). This approach is based solely on the metric function of the Finsler space: the Lagrangian is constructed as the unit divided by the volume swept by the unit vector running through all the points of the indicatrix in the tangent space under the assumption of the tangent space being Euclidean. For the space...