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...

In this paper, we introduce and investigate a general transformation or change of Finsler metrics, which is referred to as a generalized β-conformal change: L(x, y) −→ L(x, y) = f(eL(x, y), β(x, y)). This transformation combines both β-change and conformal change in a general setting. The change, under this transformation, of the fundamental Finsler connections, together with their associated g...

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...

The work proposes a general background of the theory of field interactions and strings in spaces with higher order anisotropy. Our approach proceeds by developing the concept of higher order anisotropic superspace which unifies the logical and mathematical aspects of modern Kaluza– Klein theories and generalized Lagrange and Finsler geometry and leads to modelling of physical processes on highe...

We discuss general notions of metrics and of Finsler structures which we call weak metrics and weak Finsler structures. Any convex domain carries a canonical weak Finsler structure, which we call its tautological weak Finsler structure. We compute distances in the tautological weak Finsler structure of a domain and we show that these are given by the so-called Funk weak metric. We conclude the ...

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...