In this paper, we study generalized Douglas-Weyl Finsler metrics. We find some conditions under which the class of generalized Douglas-Weyl (&alpha, &beta)-metric with vanishing S-curvature reduce to the class of Berwald metrics.

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...

We apply the method of moving anholonomic frames, with associated nonlinear connections, in (pseudo) Riemannian spaces and examine the conditions when various types of locally anisotropic (la) structures (Lagrange, Finsler like and more general ones) could be modeled in general relativity. New classes of solutions of the Einstein equations with generic local anisotropy are constructed. We formu...

the general relatively isotropic mean landsberg metrics contain the general relativelyisotropic landsberg metrics. a class of finsler metrics is given, in which the mentioned two conceptsare equivalent. in this paper, an interpretation of general relatively isotropic mean landsberg metrics isfound by using c-conformal transformations. some necessary conditions for a general relativelyisotropic ...

In a previous paper [Barceló C et al 2001 Class. Quantum Grav. 18 3595– 610 (Preprint gr-qc/0104001)] we have shown that the occurrence of curved spacetime ‘effective Lorentzian geometries’ is a generic result of linearizing an arbitrary classical field theory around some nontrivial background configuration. This observation explains the ubiquitous nature of the ‘analogue models’ for general re...

The concept of locally dually flat Finsler metrics originate from information geometry. As we know, (α, β)-metrics defined by a Riemannian metric α and an 1-form β, represent an important class of Finsler metrics, which contains the Matsumoto metric. In this paper, we study and characterize locally dually flat first approximation of the Matsumoto metric with isotropic S-curvature, which is not ...

We study Ricci flows of some classes of physically valuable solutions in Einstein and string gravity. The anholonomic frame method is applied for generic off–diagonal metric ansatz when the field/ evolution equations are transformed into exactly integrable systems of partial differential equations. The integral varieties of such solutions, in four and five dimensional gravity, depend on arbitra...

We study Ricci flows of some classes of physically valuable solutions in Einstein and string gravity. The anholonomic frame method is applied for generic off–diagonal metric ansatz when the field/ evolution equations are transformed into exactly integrable systems of partial differential equations. The integral varieties of such solutions, in four and five dimensional gravity, depend on arbitra...

David Hilbert discovered in 1895 an important metric that is canonically associated to an arbitrary convex domain Ω in the Euclidean (or projective) space. This metric is known to be Finslerian, and the usual proof of this fact assumes a certain degree of smoothness of the boundary of Ω, and refers to a theorem by Busemann and Mayer that produces the norm of a tangent vector from the distance f...

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...