We prove that a Finsler manifold Fm is of constant curvature K = 1 if and only if the unit horizontal Liouville vector field is a Killing vector field on the indicatrix bundle IM of Fm.

A tangent manifold is a pair (M, J) with J a tangent structure (J2 = 0, ker J = im J) on the manifold M . A systematic study of tangent manifolds was done by I. Vaisman in [5]. One denotes by HM any complement of im J := TV . Using the projections h and v on the two terms in the decomposition TM = HM ⊕TV one naturally defines an almost complex structure F on M . Adding to the pair (M, J) a Riem...

We review the current status of Finsler–Lagrange geometry and generalizations. The goal is to aid non–experts on Finsler spaces, but physicists and geometers skilled in general relativity and particle theories, to understand the crucial importance of such geometric methods for applications in modern physics. We also would like to orient mathematicians working in generalized Finsler and Kähler g...

We determine a 2-codimensional para-CR structure on the slit tangent bundle T0M of a Finsler manifold (M,F ) by imposing a condition regarding the almost paracomplex structure P associated to F when restricted to the structural distribution of a framed para-f -structure. This condition is satisfied when (M,F ) is of scalar flag curvature (particularly constant) or if the Riemannian manifold (M,...

We present an approach for detecting multiword phrases in mathematical text corpora. The method used is based on characteristic features of mathematical terminology. It makes use of a software tool named Lingo which allows to identify words by means of previously defined dictionaries for specific word classes as adjectives, personal names or nouns. The detection of multiword groups is done algo...

In the present paper we submit for study a new class of Finsler spaces. Through restricting the homogeneity condition from the definition of a complex Finsler metric to real scalars, λ ∈ R, is obtained a wider class of complex spaces, called by us the R−complex Finsler spaces. Two subclasses are taken in consideration: the Hermitian and the non-Hermitian R−complex Finsler spaces. In an R−comple...

We determine a 2-codimensional CR-structure on the slit tangent bundle T0M of a Finsler manifold (M, F) by imposing a condition on the almost complex structure associated to F when restricted to the structural distribution of a framed f -structure. This condition is satisfied when (M, F) is of scalar flag curvature (particularly flat). In the Riemannian case (M, g) this last condition means tha...

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...

The flag curvature is a natural extension of the sectional curvature in Riemannian geometry, and the S-curvature is a non-Riemannian quantity which vanishes for Riemannian metrics. There are (incomplete) nonRiemannian Finsler metrics on an open subset in Rn with negative flag curvature and constant S-curvature. In this paper, we are going to show a global rigidity theorem that every Finsler met...

It is shown that, on a manifold with a Finsler metric of Lorentzian signature, the lightlike geodesics satisfy the following variational principle. Among all lightlike curves from a point q (emission event) to a timelike curve γ (worldline of receiver), the lightlike geodesics make the arrival time stationary. Here “arrival time” refers to a parametrization of the timelike curve γ. This variati...