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Recent links between Finsler Geometry and the geometry of spacetimes are briefly revisited, and prospective ideas and results are explained. Special attention is paid to geometric problems with a direct motivation in Relativity and other…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Miguel A. Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

Finsler geometry is a natural generalization of pseudo-Riemannian geometry. It can be motivated e.g. by a modified version of the Ehlers-Pirani-Schild axiomatic approach to space-time theory. Also, some scenarios of quantum gravity suggest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yakov Itin , Claus Lämmerzahl , Volker Perlick

The generalized Finsler geometry, as well as Finsler geometry, is a generalization of Riemann geometry. The generalized Finsler geometry can be endowed with the Cartan connection. The generalized Finsler geometry and its Cartan connection…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

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

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

In this article, we review some aspects of gravitational field and cosmology based on Finsler and Finsler-like generalized metric structures. The geometrical framework of these spaces allows further investigation of locally-anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 P. C. Stavrinos , A. Triantafyllopoulos

Motivated in part by the bi-gravity approach to massive gravity, we introduce and study the multimetric Finsler geometry. For the case of an arbitrary number of dimensions, we study some general properties of the geometry in terms of its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Patrícia Carvalho , Cristian Landri , Ravi Mistry , Aleksandr Pinzul

Finsler geometry is a well known generalization of Riemannian geometry which allows to account for a possibly non trivial structure of the space of configurations of relativistic particles. We here establish a link between Finsler geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-07 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Leonardo Barcaroli , Giulia Gubitosi , Stefano Liberati , Niccoló Loret

Special class of Finsler metrics that can be decomposed to the product of two Riemannian metrics is considered. Based on such decomposition a new kind of Finsler gravity is suggested. Physical applications of Finsler decomposed metric are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-06 Ascar K. Aringazin , Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

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

This PhD dissertation covers a range of topics in Finsler geometry and Finsler gravity, most notably: (i) the characterization of Berwald spaces, (ii) pseudo-Riemann (non-)metrizability of Berwald spaces, (iii) $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-24 Sjors Heefer

In recent years, Planck-scale modifications to particles' dispersion relation have been deeply studied for the possibility to formulate some phenomenology of Planckian effects in astrophysical and cosmological frameworks. There are some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-24 Iarley P. Lobo , Niccoló Loret , Francisco Nettel

We present our Finsler spacetime formalism which extends the standard formulation of Finsler geometry to be applicable in physics. Finsler spacetimes are viable non-metric geometric backgrounds for physics; they guarantee well defined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-21 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

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

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

Finslerian extensions of Special and General Relativity -- commonly referred to as Very Special and Very General Relativity -- necessitate the development of a unified Lorentz-Finsler geometry. However, the scope of this geometric framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Miguel Sánchez

This thesis is devoted to the study of gravitational theories which can be seen as modifications or generalisations of General Relativity. The motivation for considering such theories, stemming from Cosmology, High Energy Physics and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-10 Thomas P. Sotiriou

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

In a previous study we investigated the spherically symmetric Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-de Sitter solutions within a Finsler-Randers-type geometry. In this work we extend our analysis to charged and rotating solutions, focusing on the…

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
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