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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

We consider models of accelerating Universe elaborated for Finsler like gravity theories constructed on tangent bundles to Lorentz manifolds. In the osculating approximation, certain locally anisotropic configurations are similar to those…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-15 Panayiotis C. Stavrinos , Sergiu I. Vacaru

The Einstein-Hilbert action (and thus the dynamics of gravity) can be obtained by combining the principle of equivalence, special relativity and quantum theory in the Rindler frame and postulating that the horizon area must be proportional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Padmanabhan

The correspondence between Riemann-Finsler geometries and effective field theories with spin-independent Lorentz violation is explored. We obtain the general quadratic action for effective scalar field theories in any spacetime dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-18 Benjamin R. Edwards , Alan Kostelecky

The present article deals with a formulation of the so called (vacuum) Palatini gravity as a general variational principle. In order to accomplish this goal, some geometrical tools related to the geometry of the bundle of connections of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Santiago Capriotti

Gravity is a phenomenon which arises due to the space-time geometry. The main equations that describe gravity are the Einstein equations. To understand the consequences of these field equations we need to calculate the free particle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Adrian Boitier , Shubhanshu Tiwari

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

It is well known that the Einstein-Hilbert action in two dimensions is topological and yields an identically vanishing Einstein tensor. Consequently one is faced with difficulties when formulating a non-trivial gravity model. We present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Christian G. Boehmer , Erik Jensko

The Einstein theory of general relativity provides a peculiar example of classical field theory ruled by non-linear partial differential equations. A number of supplementary conditions (more frequently called gauge conditions) have also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 Giampiero Esposito , Cosimo Stornaiolo

The paper introduces a general mathematical framework for action based field theories on Finsler spacetimes. As most often fields on Finsler spacetime (e.g., the Finsler fundamental function or the resulting metric tensor) have a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu

We investigate the gravitational field of a kinetic gas beyond its usual derivation from the second moment of the one-particle distribution function (1PDF), that serves as energy-momentum tensor in the Einstein equations. This standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu , Annamaria Friedl-Szász , Elena Popovici-Popescu

A modified Newton's gravity is obtained as the weak field approximation of the Einstein's equation in Finsler space. It is found that a specified Finsler structure makes the modified Newton's gravity equivalent to the modified Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhe Chang , Xin Li

We couple a conformal scalar field in (2+1) dimensions to Einstein gravity with torsion. The field equations are obtained by a variational principle. We could not solve the Einstein and Cartan equations analytically. These equations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 H. T. Özçelik , R. Kaya , M. Hortaçsu

We propose a new model for the description of a gravitating multi particle system, viewed as a kinetic gas. The properties of the, colliding or non-colliding, particles are encoded into a so called one-particle distribution function, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-11 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu

The linearized form of the metric of a Finsler - Randers space is studied in relation to the equations of motion, the deviation of geodesics and the generalized Raychaudhuri equation are given for a weak gravitational field. This equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Stavrinos

I propose an alternative $f(R)$ theory of gravity constructed by applying the function $f$ directly to the Ricci tensor instead of the Ricci scalar. The main goal of this study is to derive the resulting modified Einstein equations for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 Tomasz Stachowiak

We construct a tangent bundle exponential map and locally autoparallel coordinates for geometries based on a general connection on the tangent bundle of a manifold. As concrete application we use these new coordinates for Finslerian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Christian Pfeifer

We study a theory of gravity of the form $f(\mathcal{G})$ where $\mathcal{G}$ is the Gauss-Bonnet topological invariant without considering the standard Einstein-Hilbert term as common in the literature, in arbitrary $(d+1)$ dimensions. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-30 Francesco Bajardi , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Salvatore Capozziello

General Relativity in dimension $n = p + q$ can be formulated as a gauge theory for the conformal group $SO(p+1,q+1)$, along with an additional field reducing the structure group down to the Poincar\'e group $ISO(p,q)$. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-01 Yannick Herfray , Carlos Scarinci

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