In this paper we extend the study of the indicatrix of a complex Finsler space initiated in [10, 11]. The equations that can be introduced on the indicatrix, which is studied as a hypersurface of a complex Finsler space, are investigated. In this manner, using the equations of Gauss-Weingarten, the link between the intrinsic and induced connection is deduced. The equations of Gauss, H -and A-Co...

The Kobayashi indicatrix (infinitesimal unit ball) of a domain in IE n is known to be a biholomorphic invariant. In particular, if a domain is biholomorphic to a ball, then the indicatrix is the ball. Until the recent deep results of Lempert [4], it was not known to what extent the indicatrix characterizes the domain. Sibony had shown earlier that the indicatrix of any pseudoconvex circular dom...

II. Polarizing light microscope and geological samples III. Refractive index and its measurement IV. Optical classes-indicatrix theory V. Relationship of optical properties to crystal chemistry VI. Advanced methods in optical mineralogy GLOSSARY anisotropic mineral: A mineral with more than one principal refractive index. birefringence: The mathematical difference between the largest and smalle...

Following the study on volume of indicatrices in a real Finsler space, in this paper we are investigating some volume properties of the indicatrix considered in an arbitrary fixed point of a complex Finsler manifold. Since for each point of a complex Finsler space the indicatrix is an embedded CR-hypersurface of the punctured holomorphic tangent bundle, by means of its normal vector, the volume...

In this note the geometry of the indicatrix (I, L̃) is studied as a hypersurface of a complex Finsler space (M,L). The induced Chern-Finsler and Berwald connections are defined and studied. The induced Berwald connection coincides with the intrinsic Berwald connection of the indicatrix bundle. We considered a special projection of a geodesic curve on a complex Finsler space (M,L), called the ind...

Continuing the study of the complex indicatrix IzM , approached as an embedded CR hypersurface on the punctual holomorphic tangent bundle of a complex Finsler space, we study in this paper the almost contact structures that can be introduced on IzM . The Levi form and characteristic direction of the complex indicatrix are given and the CR distributions integrability is studied. Using these we c...

In this paper is studied the differential geometry of the complex indicatrix, which is approached as an embedded CR hypersurface of the punctual holomorphic tangent bundle of a complex Finsler space. Following the study of CR submanifolds of a Kähler manifold and using the submanifold formulae there are investigated some properties of the complex indicatrix, such as the fact that it is an extri...

By regarding the complex indicatrix as an embedded CR-hypersurface of the holomorphic tangent bundle in a fixed point, we analyze some aspects of the relations between its CR structure and the considered contact structure. Moreover, using the classification of the almost contact metric structures associated with a strongly pseudo-convex CRstructure, of D. Chinea and C. Gonzales, we determine th...

If there is given an isotopic deformation of a two-dimensional euclidean plane E onto itself, one can adjoin to every point P of E a certain closed curve, the so-called "indicatrix" of P (§1). If the indicatrix does not pass through P, we introduce the order of P relative to its indicatrix as the "rotation number" of the deformation at P. A relation between the rotation numbers in different poi...

The bridge index and superbridge index of a knot are important invariants in knot theory. We define the bridge map of a knot conformation, which is closely related to these two invariants, and interpret it in terms of the tangent indicatrix of the knot conformation. Using the concepts of dual and derivative curves of spherical curves as introduced by Arnold, we show that the graph of the bridge...