The notion of dually flat Finsler metrics arise from information geometry. In this paper, we will study a special class of Finsler metrics called Randers metrics to be dually flat. A simple characterization is provided and some non-trivial explicit examples are constructed. In particular, We will show that the dual flatness of a Randers metric always arises from that of some Riemannian metric b...

Smooth Finsler metrics are a natural generalization of Riemannian ones and have been widely studied in the framework of differential geometry. The definition can be weakened by allowing the metric to be only Borel measurable. This generalization is necessary in view of applications, such as, for instance, optimization problems. In this paper we show that smooth Finsler metrics are dense in Bore...

the most current pursuit algorithms for moving targets which are presented so far in the literatureare pure pursuit and pure rendezvous navigations. recently, one of the present authors has introduced ageometric model for the pure pursuit navigation algorithm. here, in this paper, we study a new algorithm forthe pursuit navigation problem which is a combination of both of the above algorithms. ...

We obtain some results in both, Lorentz and Finsler geometries, by using a correspondence between the conformal structure of standard stationary spacetimes on M = R × S and Randers metrics on S. In particular: (1) For stationary spacetimes: we give a simple characterization on when R×S is causally continuous or globally hyperbolic (including in the latter case, when S is a Cauchy hypersurface),...

In this paper we study the sub-Finsler geometry as a time-optimal control problem. In particular, we consider non-smooth and non-strictly convex sub-Finsler structures associated with the Heisenberg, Grushin, and Martinet distributions. Motivated by problems in geometric group theory, we characterize extremal curves, discuss their optimality, and calculate the metric spheres, proving their Eucl...

Finsler and Lagrange spaces can be equivalently represented as almost Kähler manifolds endowed with a metric compatible canonical distinguished connection structure generalizing the Levi Civita connection. The goal of this paper is to perform a natural Fedosov– type deformation quantization of such geometries. All constructions are canonically derived for regular Lagrangians and/or fundamental ...

It is the Hilbert’s Fourth Problem to characterize the (not-necessarilyreversible) distance functions on a bounded convex domain in R such that straight lines are shortest paths. Distance functions induced by a Finsler metric are regarded as smooth ones. Finsler metrics with straight geodesics said to be projective. It is known that the flag curvature of any projective Finsler metric is a scala...

This paper studies the extension of the Hofer metric and general Finsler metrics on the Hamiltonian symplectomorphism group Ham(M,ω) to the identity component Symp0(M,ω) of the symplectomorphism group. In particular, we prove that the Hofer metric on Ham(M,ω) does not extend to a bi-invariant metric on Symp0(M,ω) for many symplectic manifolds. We also show that for the torus T2n with the standa...

If D is a bounded convex domain in C , then the work of Lempert [L] and Royden-Wong [RW] (see also [A]) show that given any point p ∈ D and any non-zero tangent vector v ∈ C at p, there exists a holomorphic map φ:U → D from the unit disk U ⊂ C into D passing through p and tangent to v in p which is an isometry with respect to the hyperbolic distance of U and the Kobayashi distance of D. Further...