In this paper, we study the class of of C3-like Finsler metrics which contains the class of semi-C-reducible Finsler metric. We find a condition on C3-like metrics under which the notions of Landsberg curvature and mean Landsberg curvature are equivalent.

We show that the index of a lightlike geodesic in a conformally standard stationary spacetime (M0 × R, g) is equal to the index of its spatial projection as a geodesic of a Finsler metric F on M0 associated to (M0×R, g). Moreover we obtain the Morse relations of lightlike geodesics connecting a point p to a curve γ(s) = (q0, s) by using Morse theory on the Finsler manifold (M0, F ). To this end...

The notion of holomorphic bi-flag curvature for a complex Finsler space (M, F ) is defined with respect to the Chern complex linear connection on the pull-back tangent bundle. By means of holomorphic curvature and holomorphic flag curvature of a complex Finsler space, a special approach is devoted to obtain the characterizations of the holomorphic bi-flag curvature. For the class of generalized...

Modern gauge theories of high energy physics, investigations in classical and quantum gravity and recent unifications of superstring theories (the so–called M– F– and S– theories) are characterized by a large application of geometric and topological methods. There are elaborated a number of Kaluza–Klein models of space–time and proposed different variants of compactification of higher dimension...

equality of -curvatures of the berwald and cartan connections leads to a new class of finsler metrics, so-called bc-generalized landsberg metrics. here, we prove that every bc-generalized landsberg metric of scalar flag curvature with dimension greater than two is of constant flag curvature.

The notion of holomorphic bisectional curvature for a complex Finsler space (M, F ) is defined with respect to the Chern complex linear connection on the pull-back tangent bundle. By means of holomorphic curvature and holomorphic flag curvature of a complex Finsler space, a special approach is emloyed to obtain the characterizations of the holomorphic bisectional curvature. For the class of gen...

In this paper we consider a dominating Finsler metric on a complete Riemannian manifold. First we prove that the energy integral of the Finsler metric satisfies the Palais-Smale condition, and ask for the number of geodesics with endpoints in two given submanifolds. Using Lusternik-Schnirelman theory of critical points we obtain some multiplicity results for the number of Finsler-geodesics betw...

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...

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...

A complex Finsler metric is an upper semicontinuous function F : T 1,0 M → R + defined on the holomorphic tangent bundle of a complex Finsler manifold M , with the property that F (p; ζv) = |ζ|F (p; v) for any (p; v) ∈ T 1,0 M and ζ ∈ C. Complex Finsler metrics do occur naturally in function theory of several variables. The Kobayashi metric introduced in 1967 ([K1]) and its companion the Carath...