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A piecewise flat Finsler metric on a triangulated surface $M$ is a metric whose restriction to any triangle is a flat triangle in some Minkowski space with straight edges. One of the main purposes of this work is to study the properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Ming Xu , Shaoqiang Deng

Motivated by recent breathtaking progress in the synthetic study of Lorentzian geometry, we investigate the local concavity of time separation functions on Finsler spacetimes as a Lorentzian counterpart to Busemann's convexity in metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Tobias Beran , Darius Erös , Shin-ichi Ohta , Felix Rott

Space-time is spherically symmetric if it admits the group of SO(3) as a group of isometries,with the group orbits spacelike two-surfaces. These orbits are necessarily two-surface of constant positive curavture. One commonly chooses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Amir H. Abbassi

Effective field theories with explicit Lorentz violation are intimately linked to Riemann-Finsler geometry. The quadratic single-fermion restriction of the Standard-Model Extension provides a rich source of pseudo-Riemann-Finsler spacetimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-28 Alan Kostelecky

We show an analogue of the Lorentzian splitting theorem for weighted Lorentz-Finsler manifolds: If a weighted Berwald spacetime of nonnegative weighted Ricci curvature satisfies certain completeness and metrizability conditions and includes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Yufeng Lu , Ettore Minguzzi , Shin-ichi Ohta

We review recent developments in cosmological models based on Finsler geometry and extensions of general relativity within this framework. Finsler geometry generalizes Riemannian geometry by allowing the metric tensor to depend on position…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Amine Bouali , Himanshu Chaudhary , Lehel Csillag , Rattanasak Hama , Tiberiu Harko , Sorin V. Sabau , Shahab Shahidi

In this short paper, we study a symmetric covariant tensor in Finsler geometry, which is called the mean Berwald curvature. We first investigate the geometry of the fibres as the submanifolds of the tangent sphere bundle on a Finsler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Ming Li

In Theorem 1, we generalize the results of Szabo for Berwald metrics that are not necessary strictly convex: we show that for every Berwald metric F there always exists a Riemannian metric affine equivalent to F. As an application we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Vladimir S. Matveev

Here, a non-linear analysis method is applied rather than classical one to study projective Finsler geometry. More intuitively, by means of an inequality on Ricci-Finsler curvature, a projectively invariant pseudo-distance is introduced and…

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

The class of generalized Berwald metrics contains the class of Berwald metrics. In this paper, we characterize two-dimensional generalized Berwald $(\alpha, \beta)$-metrics with vanishing S-curvature. Let $F=\alpha\phi(s)$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Akbar Tayebi , Faezeh Eslami

In this work we study Berwald spacetimes and their vacuum dynamics, where the latter are based on a Finsler generalization of the Einstein's equations derived from an action on the unit tangent bundle. In particular, we consider a specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-02 Andrea Fuster , Cornelia Pabst , Christian Pfeifer

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

Finsler geometry is an important extension of Riemann geometry, in which to each point of the spacetime manifold an arbitrary internal variable is associated. Interesting Finsler geometries, with many physical applications, are the Randers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 Rattanasak Hama , Tiberiu Harko , Sorin V. Sabau

We investigate here all the possible invariant metric functions under the action of various kinds of semi-direct product Poincar\'e subgroups and their deformed partners. The investigation exhausts the possible theoretical frameworks for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Lei Zhang , Xun Xue

We generalize Birkhoff's Theorem in the following fashion. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for any spherically symmetric space-time to be static in terms of the eigenvalues of the stress-energy tensor. In particular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Joel L. Weiner

It is well known that there are various models of gravitation: the metrical Hilbert-Einstein theory, a wide class of intrinsically Lorentz-invariant tetrad theories (of course, generally-covariant in the space-time sense), and many gauge…

Geometry is wavy: even at the purely geometric level (no particular theory chosen), curvature satisfies a covariant quasilinear wave equation. In Riemannian geometry equipped with the Levi-Civita connection, the Riemann curvature tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Emel Altas , Bayram Tekin

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

We prove a globally hyperbolic spacetime with locally Lipschitz continuous metric and timelike distributional Ricci curvature bounded from below obeys the timelike measure contraction property. The remarkable class of examples of spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mathias Braun , Marta Sálamo Candal

Along with the construction of non-Lorentz-invariant effective field theories, recent studies which are based on geometric models of Finsler space-time become more and more popular. In this respect, the Finslerian approach to the problem of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Balan , G. Yu. Bogoslovsky , S. S. Kokarev , D. G. Pavlov , S. V. Siparov , N. Voicu