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Moving planes, Jacobi curves and the dynamical approach to Finsler geometry

Differential Geometry 2017-01-23 v2

Abstract

We express invariants of Finsler manifolds in a geometrical way by means of using moving planes and their associated Jacobi curves, which are curves in a fixed homogeneous Grassmann manifold. Some applications are given.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01705,
  title  = {Moving planes, Jacobi curves and the dynamical approach to Finsler geometry},
  author = {Carlos Duran and Henrique Vitorio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01705},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

27 pages. Necessary references added, introduction modified accordingly