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We analyze the foundations of Finsler gravity theories with metric compatible connections constructed on nonholonomic tangent bundles, or (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds. There are considered "minimal" modifications of Einstein gravity…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-19 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We study the geometric and physical foundations of Finsler gravity theories with metric compatible connections defined on tangent bundles, or (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds). There are analyzed alternatives to Einstein gravity (including…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Sergiu I. Vacaru

A geometric procedure is elaborated for transforming (pseudo) Riemanian metrics and connections into canonical geometric objects (metric and nonlinear and linear connections) for effective Lagrange, or Finsler, geometries which, in their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We develop the method of anholonomic frames with associated nonlinear connection (in brief, N--connection) structure and show explicitly how geometries with local anisotropy (various type of Finsler--Lagrange--Cartan--Hamilton geometry) can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergiu I. Vacaru

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Finsler geometry is a natural and fundamental generalization of Riemann geometry. The Finsler structure depends on both coordinates and velocities. It is defined as a function on tangent bundle of a manifold. We use the Bianchi identities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-14 Xin Li , Zhe Chang

We model pseudo-Finsler geometries, with pseudo-Euclidean signatures of metrics, for two classes of four dimensional nonholonomic manifolds: a) tangent bundles with two dimensional base manifolds and b) pseudo-Riemannian/ Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-09 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this article, 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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-31 Sergiu I. Vacaru

For (2+2)-dimensional nonholonomic distributions, the physical information contained into a spacetime (pseudo) Riemannian metric can be encoded equivalently into new types of geometric structures and linear connections constructed as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-08 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Nonholonomic distributions and adapted fame structures on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds of even dimension are employed to build structures equivalent to almost Kahler geometry and which allows to perform a Fedosov-like quantization of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Various types of Lagrange and Finsler geometries and the Einstein gravity theory, and modifications, can be modelled by nonholonomic distributions on tangent bundles/ manifolds when the fundamental geometric objects are adapted to nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Over the last seventy years, many Finsler-type geometric and modified gravity theories have been elaborated. They have been formulated in terms of different classes of Finsler generating functions, metric and nonmetric structures, nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We survey the geometry of Lagrange and Finsler spaces and discuss the issues related to the definition of curvature of nonholonomic manifolds enabled with nonlinear connection structure. It is proved that any commutative Riemannian geometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We construct gravitational dynamics for Finsler spacetimes in terms of an action integral on the unit tangent bundle. These spacetimes are generalizations of Lorentzian metric manifolds which satisfy necessary causality properties. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-12 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We present an introduction to the geometry of higher order vector and co-vector bundles (including higher order generalizations of the Finsler geometry and Kaluza--Klein gravity) and review the basic results on Clifford and spinor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Nadejda A. Vicol

The book contains a collection of works on Riemann-Cartan and metric-affine manifolds provided with nonlinear connection structure and on generalized Finsler-Lagrange and Cartan-Hamilton geometries and Clifford structures modelled on such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Vacaru , P. Stavrinos , E. Gaburov , D. Gonţa

The work extends the A. Connes' noncommutative geometry to spaces with generic local anisotropy. We apply the E. Cartan's anholonomic frame approach to geometrical models and physical theories and develop the nonlinear connection formalism…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergiu Vacaru

A new framework to perturbative quantum gravity is proposed following the geometry of nonholonomic distributions on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds. There are considered such distributions and adapted connections, also completely defined by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We study Finsler black holes induced from Einstein gravity as possible effects of quantum spacetime noncommutativity. Such Finsler models are defined by nonholonomic frames not on tangent bundles but on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds being…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 Sergiu I. Vacaru
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