In this paper, by the Gauss equation of the induced Chern connection for Finsler submanifolds, we prove that if M is an umbilical hypersurface of a Minkowski space (V , F ), then either M is a Riemannian space form or a locally Minkowski space. AMS subject classifications: 53C60, 53C40

Nonholonomic distributions and adapted frame structures on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds of even dimension are employed to build structures equivalent to almost Kähler geometry and which allows to perform a Fedosov-like quantization of gravity. The nonlinear connection formalism that was formally elaborated for Lagrange and Finsler geometry is implemented in classical and quantum Einstein gravity.

In Finsler geometry, the notion of parallel for Finsler tensor fields is defined, already. In this paper, however, for vector fields on a base manifold, the author studies the notion of parallel. In the last section, the obtained results are shown as compare corresponding properties to them of Riemannian geometry. Introduction The author gave the definition (1.1) of the parallel displacement al...

We formulate an approach to the geometry of Riemann–Cartan spaces provided with nonholonomic distributions defined by generic off-diagonal and nonsymmetric metrics inducing effective nonlinear and affine connections. Such geometries can be modelled by moving nonholonomic frames on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds and describe various types of nonholonomic Einstein, Eisenhart–Moffat and Finsler–Lag...

Riemannian geometry has become a popular mathematical framework for the analysis of diffusion tensor images (DTI) in diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWMRI). If one declines from the a priori constraint to model local anisotropic diffusion in terms of a 6-degrees-of-freedom rank-2 DTI tensor, then Riemann-Finsler geometry appears to be the natural extension. As such it provides an...

We consider a triality between the Zermelo navigation problem, the geodesic flow on a Finslerian geometry of Randers type, and spacetimes in one dimension higher admitting a timelike conformal Killing vector field. From the latter viewpoint, the data of the Zermelo problem are encoded in a (conformally) Painlevé-Gullstrand form of the spacetime metric, whereas the data of the Randers problem ar...

We synthesize and extend the previous ideas about appearance of both noncommutative and Finsler geometry in string theory with nonvanishing B–field and/or anholonomic (super) frame structures [42, 43, 48, 50]. There are investigated the limits to the Einstein gravity and string generalizations containing locally anisotropic structures modeled by moving frames. The relation of anholonomic frames...

The objective of this article is to build up a general theory of geometrical optics for spinning light rays in an inhomogeneous and anisotropic medium modeled on a Finsler manifold. The prerequisites of local Finsler geometry are reviewed together with the main properties of the Cartan connection used in this work. Then, the principles of Finslerian spinoptics are formulated on the grounds of p...

We formulate an approach to the geometry of Riemann–Cartan spaces provided with nonholonomic distributions defined by generic off–diagonal and nonsymmetric metrics inducing effective nonlinear and affine connections. Such geometries can be modelled by moving nonholonomic frames on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds and describe various types of nonholonomic Einstein, Eisenhart–Moffat and Finsler–Lag...