Our main observation concerns closed geodesics on surfaces M with a smooth Finsler metric, i.e. a function F : TM → [0,∞) which is a norm on each tangent space TpM , p ∈ M , which is smooth outside of the zero section in TM , and which is strictly convex in the sense that Hess(F ) is positive definite on TpM \ {0}. One calls a Finsler metric F symmetric if F (p,−v) = F (p, v) for all v ∈ TpM . ...

It is shown that the projectivised tangent bundle of Finsler spaces with the Chern connection has a contact metric structure under a conformal transformation with certain condition of the Finsler function and moreover it is locally isometric to E × Sm−1(4) for m > 2 and flat for m = 2 if and only if the Cartan tensor vanishes, i.e., the Finsler space is a Riemannian manifold. M.S.C. 2000: 53C60...

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...

Based on the analogue spacetime programme, and many other ideas currently mooted in “quantum gravity”, there is considerable ongoing speculation that the usual pseudoRiemannian (Lorentzian) manifolds of general relativity might eventually be modified at short distances. Two specific modifications that are often advocated are the adoption of Finsler geometries (or more specifically, pseudo-Finsl...

The well-known invariants of conics are computed for classes of Finsler and Lagrange spaces. For the Finsler case, some (α, β)-metrics namely Randers, Kropina and ”Riemann”-type metrics provides conics as indicatrices and a Randers-Funk metric on the unit disk is treated as example. The relations between algebraic and differential invariants of (α, β)-metrics are pointed out as a method to use ...

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...

Some general Finsler connections are defined. Emphasis is being made on the Cartan tensor and its derivatives. Vanishing of the hv-curvature tensors of these connections characterizes Landsbergian, Berwaldian as well as Riemannian structures. This view point makes it possible to give a smart representation of connection theory in Finsler geometry and yields to a classification of Finsler connec...

We give a new and complete proof of the following theorem, discovered by Detlef Laugwitz: (forward) complete and connected finite dimensional Finsler manifolds admitting a proper homothety are Minkowski vector spaces. More precisely, we show that under these hypotheses the Finsler manifold is isometric to the tangent Minkowski vector space of the fixed point of the homothety via the exponential...

Abstract. The aim of this paper is to consider Busemann-type inequalities on Finsler manifolds. We actually formulate a rigidity conjecture: any Finsler manifold which is a Busemann NPC space is Berwaldian. This statement is supported by some theoretical results and numerical examples. The presented examples are obtained by using evolutionary techniques (genetic algorithms) which can be used fo...

Munteanu (Complex spaces in Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton Geometries, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004) defined the canonical connection associated to a strongly pseudoconvex complex Finsler manifold (M, F). We first prove that holomorphic sectional curvature tensors of coincide with those Chern–Finsler F if only is Kähler-Finsler metric. also investigate relationship Ricci curvatur...