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Cosmological Landsberg Finsler spacetimes

Mathematical Physics 2025-10-08 v3 Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We locally classify all possible cosmological homogeneous and isotropic Landsberg-type Finsler structures, in 4-dimensions. Among them, we identify viable non-stationary Finsler spacetimes, i.e. those geometries leading to a physical causal structure and a dynamical universe. Noting that any non-stationary Landsberg metric must be actually non-Berwaldian (i.e., it should be a so-called 'unicorn'), we construct the unique Finsler, non-Berwaldian Landsberg generalization of Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2410.18197,
  title  = {Cosmological Landsberg Finsler spacetimes},
  author = {Annamária Friedl-Szász and Elena Popovici-Popescu and Nicoleta Voicu and Christian Pfeifer and Sjors Heefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18197},
  year   = {2025}
}