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The projective Finsler metrizability problem deals with the question whether a projective-equivalence class of sprays is the geodesic class of a (locally or globally defined) Finsler function. In this paper we use Hilbert-type forms to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-14 M. Crampin , T. Mestdag , D. J. Saunders

We obtain a result about the existence of only a finite number of geodesics between two fixed non-conjugate points in a Finsler manifold endowed with a convex function. We apply it to Randers and Zermelo metrics. As a by-product, we also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-14 Erasmo Caponio , Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Antonio Masiello

In this paper, we investigate the spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with isotropic S-curvature and obtain a characterized equation. As an application, we prove that these metrics with Douglas type must be Randers metrics or Berwald…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Linfeng Zhou

In this paper, we study a class of Finsler metrics which contains the class of Berwald metrics as a special case. We prove that every Finsler metric in this class is a generalized Douglas-Weyl metric. Then we study isotropic flag curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-21 Akbar Tayebi , Esmaeil Peyghan

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

In this paper, we introduce an asymmetric metric on the space of marked Euclidean triangles, and we prove several properties of this metric, including two equivalent definitions of this metric, one of them comparing ratios of functions of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Ismail Saglam , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

The problem of classification of cubic homogeneous Finslerian 3D metrics with respect to their isometries is considered. It is shown, that there are 6 different general affine types of such metrics. Algebras of isometries are presented in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Sergey S. Kokarev

This article is an exposition of four loosely related remarks on the geometry of Finsler manifolds with constant positive flag curvature. <p> The first remark is that there is a canonical Kahler structure on the space of geodesics of such a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Bryant

A Finsler metric is geodesically reversible if geodesics remain geodesics after a change of orientation. Asymmetric norms on vector spaces and Funk metrics in the interior of convex bodies are examples of geodesically reversible metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Juan-Carlos Alvarez Paiva

If the flag curvature of a Finsler manifold reduces to sectional curvature, then locally either the Finsler metric is Riemannian, or the flag curvature is isotropic.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Libing Huang , Zhongmin Shen

In this work an intrinsic projectively invariant distance is used to establish a new approach to the study of projective geometry in Finsler space. It is shown that the projectively invariant distance previously defined is a constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-03 M. Sepasi , B. Bidabad

We consider the projective Finsler metrizability problem: under what conditions the solutions of a given system of second-order ordinary differential equations (SODE) coincide with the geodesics of a Finsler metric, as oriented curves.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Tamás Milkovszki , Zoltán Muzsnay

One of the most important problems in Finsler geometry is to classify Finsler metrics of scalar flag curvature. In this paper, we study the classification problem of Randers metrics of scalar flag curvature. Under the condition that $\beta$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Xinyue Cheng , Li Yin , Tingting Li

In metric-affine geometry, autoparallels are generically non-variational, i.e., they are not the extremals of any action integral. The existence of a parametrization-invariant action principle for autoparallels is a long-standing open…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Lehel Csillag , Nicoleta Voicu , Salah Elgendi , Christian Pfeifer

In this paper we study the flag curvature of a particular class of Finsler metrics called general $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics, which are defined by a Riemannian metric $\alpha$ and a $1$-form $\beta$. The classification of such metrics with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Changtao Yu , Hongmei Zhu

In this paper, as an application of the inverse problem of calculus of variations, we investigate two compatibility conditions on the spherically symmetric Finsler metrics. By making use of these conditions, we focus our attention on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-15 S. G. Elgendi

We study the following problem: given an Einstein metric on a manifold, characterize and study all Einstein metrics which are pointwise projective to the given one. By definition, two metrics are said to be pointwise projectively related if…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongmin Shen

We show that for certain sequences escaping to infinity in the $\operatorname{SL}_3\mathbb{R}$ Hitchin component, growth rates of trace functions are described by natural Finsler metrics. More specifically, as the Labourie-Loftin cubic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Charles Reid

The main objective of this paper is to study semi-concurrent vector fields on a Finsler manifold. We show that the quasi-$C$-reducible Finsler space, $C3$-like Finsler space, $C^{h}$-recurrent Finsler space, and $P2$-like Finsler space are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-12 M. R. Rajeshwari , S. K. Narasimhamurthy , H. M. Manjunatha

We give a complete list of two-dimensional metrics that admit an essential projective vector field. This solves a problem explicitly posed by Sophus Lie in 1882.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Vladimir S. Matveev