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Finsler geometry naturally appears in the description of various physical systems. In this review I divide the emergence of Finsler geometry in physics into three categories: as dual description of dispersion relations, as most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-01 Christian Pfeifer

Applying the cosmological principle to Finsler spacetimes, we identify the Lie Algebra of symmetry generators of spatially homogeneous and isotropic Finsler geometries, thus generalising Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker geometry. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-06 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu

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

Finsler spacetime geometry is a canonical extension of Riemannian spacetime geometry. It is based on a general length measure for curves (which does not necessarily arise from a spacetime metric) and it is used as an effective description…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Nicoleta Voicu , Christian Pfeifer , Samira Cheraghchi

The recent increasing interest in the study of Lorentz-Finsler geometry has led to several applications to model real-world physical phenomena. Our purpose is to provide a simple, step-by-step review on how to build and implement such a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Enrique Pendás-Recondo

We consider the geometry of spacetime based on a non-metric, Finslerian, length measure, which, in terms of physics, represents a generalized clock. Our defnition of Finsler spacetimes ensure a well defined notion of causality, a precise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-11 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

It is shown that, on a manifold with a Finsler metric of Lorentzian signature, the lightlike geodesics satisfy the following variational principle. Among all lightlike curves from a point (emission event) to a timelike curve (worldline of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Volker Perlick

Motivated by the study of wave fronts in anisotropic media, we propose an incidence geometry of anisotropic spheres in a Finsler-Minkowski space. An anisotropic version of the Laguerre functional is considered. In some circumstances, this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Bennett Palmer

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 study the propagation of axial gravitational waves in Friedman universes. The evolution equation is obtained in the Regge-Wheeler gauge. The gravitational waves obey the Huygens principle in the radiation dominated era, but in the matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward Malec , Grzegorz Wylezek

Fermat's principle is fully generalized to the case where a smooth interface separates two cone structures -- Lorentz-Finsler lightcones -- representing wave propagation in a potentially inhomogeneous, anisotropic, time-dependent and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Steen Markvorsen , Enrique Pendás-Recondo , Miguel Sánchez

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 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

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

We present a concise new definition of Finsler spacetimes that generalize Lorentzian metric manifolds and provide consistent backgrounds for physics. Extending standard mathematical constructions known from Finsler spaces we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-29 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

In this work, a version of Fermat's principle for causal curves with the same energy in time orientable Finsler spacetimes is proved. We calculate the secondvariation of the {\it time arrival functional} along a geodesic in terms of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Ricardo Gallego Torromé , Paolo Piccione , Henrique Vitório

The notion of wind Finslerian structure is developed; this is a generalization of Finsler metrics where the indicatrices at the tangent spaces may not contain the zero vector. In the particular case that these indicatrices are ellipsoids,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Erasmo Caponio , Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

Finsler geometry motivates a generalization of the Riemannian structure of spacetime to include dependence of the spacetime metric and associated invariant tensor fields on the four-velocity coordinates as well as the spacetime coordinates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard E. Brandt

The problem of finding null geodesics in a stationary Lorentzian spacetime is known to to be equivalent to finding the geodsics of a Randers-Finlser structure. This latter problem is equivalent to finding the motion of charged particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-10 G. W. Gibbons

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
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