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Finsler geometry serves as a fundamental and natural extension of Riemannian geometry, providing a valuable framework for investigating Lorentz violation in spacetime. Previous studies have treated the Finsler structures associated with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Jie Zhu , Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

We introduce a definition of symmetry generating vector fields on manifolds which are equipped with a first-order reductive Cartan geometry. We apply this definition to a number of physically motivated examples and show that our newly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Manuel Hohmann

The approach of metric-affine field theory is to define spacetime as a real oriented 4-manifold equipped with a metric and an affine connection. The 10 independent components of the metric tensor and the 64 connection coefficients are the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alastair D. King , Dmitri Vassiliev

Given a Finsler space (M,F) on a manifold M, the averaging method associates to Finslerian geometric objects affine geometric objects} living on $M$. In particular, a Riemannian metric is associated to the fundamental tensor $g$ and an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

We give an introduction to (pseudo-)Finsler geometry and its connections. For most results we provide short and self contained proofs. Our study of the Berwald non-linear connection is framed into the theory of connections over general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 E. Minguzzi

Recent observations on the quasar absorption spectra supply evidence for the variation of the fine structure constant $\alpha$. In this paper, we propose another interpretation of the observational data on the quasar absorption spectra: a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-15 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang , Xin Li

A generalized definition of a frame of reference in spaces with affine connections and metrics is proposed based on the set of the following differential-geometric objects: (a) a non-null (non-isotropic) vector field, (b) the orthogonal to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Manoff

I tell about different mathematical tool that is important in general relativity. The text of the book includes definition of geometrical object, concept of reference frame, geometry of metric-affinne manifold. Using this concept I learn…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Aleks Kleyn

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Duval

Let $G$ be a subgroup of $\mathrm{SL}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1})\ltimes\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ obtained by adding a translation part to a torsion-free discrete subgroup of $\mathrm{SL}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1})$ dividing a convex cone in the sense of Benoist. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Antoine Ablondi

In this paper, we generalize the classification of geodesic orbit spheres from Riemannian geometry to Finsler geometry. Then we further prove if a geodesic orbit Finsler sphere has constant flag curvature, it must be Randers. It provides an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Ming Xu

Recent updated results of quasar spectra suggested a 3.9$\sigma$ significance of spatial variation of the fine-structure constant. Theoretically, it is important to examine whether the fine-structure constant, as a fundamental constant in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-17 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

We study a special class of Finsler metrics which we refer to as Almost Rational Finsler metrics (shortly, AR-Finsler metrics). We give necessary and sufficient conditions for an AR-Finsler manifold $(M,F)$ to be Riemannian. The rationality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Ebtsam H. Taha , Bankteshwar Tiwari

Ultra-compact objects describe horizonless solutions of the Einstein field equations which, like black-hole spacetimes, possess null circular geodesics (closed light rings). We study {\it analytically} the physical properties of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-21 Shahar Hod

We undertake to show how the relativistic Finslerian Metric Function (FMF) should arise under uni-directional violation of spatial isotropy, keeping the condition that the indicatrix (mass-shell) is a space of constant negative curvature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Asanov

As seen in the works of Calabi, Cheng-Yau and Loftin, affine sphere equations have a close relationship with Kaehler-Einstein metrics. The main purpose of this note is to show that an equation analogous to those of hyperbolic affine spheres…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-02 Toshiki Mabuchi

The starting point of the theory of Special Relativity$^1$ is the Lorentz transformation, which in essence describes the lack of absolute measurements of space and time. These effects came about when one applies the Second Relativity…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lieu , Richard

We briefly review two recently developed extensions of the Lorentzian geometry of spacetime and prove that they are in fact closely related. The first is the concept of observer space, which generalizes the space of Lorentzian observers,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-28 Manuel Hohmann

Based on the analogue spacetime programme, and many other ideas currently mooted in "quantum gravity", there is considerable ongoing speculation that the usual pseudo-Riemannian (Lorentzian) manifolds of general relativity might eventually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-05 Jozef Skakala , Matt Visser

A general integral inequality is established for compact spacelike submanifolds of codimension two in the Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime under the assumption that the mean curvature vector field is parallel. This inequality is then used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Francisco J. Palomo , Alfonso Romero