In this paper we define vertical and horizontal Laplace type operators for functions on the total space of a complex Finsler bundle (E, L). We also define the ′′ v-Laplacian for (p, q, r, s)-forms with compact support on E and we get the local expression of this Laplacian explicitly in terms of vertical covariant derivatives with respect to the Chern-Finsler linear connection of (E, L).

The geodesic graph of Riemannian spaces all geodesics of which are orbits of 1-parameter isometry groups is constructed by J. Szenthe in 1976 and it became a basic tool for studying such spaces, called g.o. spaces. This infinitesimal structure corresponds to the reductive complement m in the case of naturally reductive spaces. The systematic study of Riemannian g.o. spaces is started by O. Kowa...

On a Finsler manifold (M,L), we consider the change L −→ L(x, y) = eL(x, y) + β(x, y), which we call a β-conformal change. This change generalizes various types of changes in Finsler geometry: conformal, C-conformal, h-conformal, Randers and generalized Randers changes. Under this change, we obtain an explicit expression relating the Cartan connection associated to (M,L) and the transformed Car...

The geometric constructions are performed on (semi) Riemannian manifolds and vector bundles provided with nonintegrable distributions defining nonlinear connection structures induced canonically by metric tensors. Such spaces are called nonholonomic manifolds and described by two equivalent linear connections also induced unique forms by a metric tensor (the Levi Civita and the canonical distin...

A geometric procedure is elaborated for transforming (pseudo) Riemanian metrics and connections into canonical geometric objects (metric and nonlinear and linear connections) for effective Lagrange, or Finsler, geometries which, in their turn, can be equivalently represented as almost Kähler spaces. This allows us to formulate an approach to quantum gravity following standard methods of deforma...

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...

From a rigorous Finsler geometric perspective, we re-examine Holland’s Randers space theory of motion of an electron in flat Minkowski spacetime permeated with an electromagnetic field. Holland’s theory was motivated by analogy with plastic deformation and dislocation in Bravais crystals, through work of D. Bohm on Quantum Mechanics. We develop the anholonomic geometry of a Randers space using ...