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We consider a triality between the Zermelo navigation problem, the geodesic flow on a Finslerian geometry of Randers type, and spacetimes in one dimension higher admitting a timelike conformal Killing vector field. From the latter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-05 G. W. Gibbons , C. A. R. Herdeiro , C. M. Warnick , M. C. Werner

In this paper, we study Zermelo navigation on Riemannian manifolds and use that to solve a long standing problem in Finsler geometry. Namely, the complete classification of strongly convex Randers metrics of constant flag curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Bao , Colleen Robles , Zhongmin Shen

We generalize and study the Zermelo navigation problem on Hermitian manifolds in the presence of a perturbation $W$ determined by a mild complex velocity vector field $||W(z)||_h<||u(z)||_h$, with application of complex Finsler metric of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Nicoleta Aldea , Piotr Kopacz

In certain circumstances tools of Riemannian geometry are sufficient to address questions arising in the more general Finslerian context. We show that one such instance presents itself in the characterisation of geodesics in Randers spaces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Dorje C. Brody , Gary W. Gibbons , David M. Meier

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

We address the time- and position-dependent Zermelo navigation problem within the framework of Lorentz-Finsler geometry. Since the initial work of E. Zermelo, the task is to find the time-minimizing trajectory between two regions for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Steen Markvorsen , Enrique Pendás-Recondo , Frederik Möbius Rygaard

In this work, we pose and solve the time-optimal navigation problem considered on a slippery mountain slope modeled by a Riemannian manifold of an arbitrary dimension, under the action of a cross gravitational wind. The impact of both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Nicoleta Aldea , Piotr Kopacz

In this work, we solve the generalized Matsumoto's slope-of-a-mountain problem by means of Riemann-Finsler geometry, making close links with the Zermelo navigation problem. The time-minimizing navigation under gravity is analyzed in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Nicoleta Aldea , Piotr Kopacz

Recently, wind Riemannian structures (WRS) have been introduced as a generalization of Randers and Kropina metrics. They are constructed from the natural data for Zermelo navigation problem, namely, a Riemannian metric $g_R$ and a vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the Finslerian interpretation of null geodesics in the exterior regions of stationary black holes, particularly through the Zermelo navigation problem and the Randers metric. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Hengameh R. Dehkordi , Mauricio Richartz , Alberto Saa

We consider remodeling the planar search patterns, in the presence of the river-type perturbation represented by the weak vector field, basing on the time-optimal paths as Finslerian solutions to the Zermelo navigation problem via Randers…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Piotr Kopacz

In the present paper we study the global behaviour of geodesics on a Randers metric, defined on a topological cylinder, obtained as the solution of the Zermelo's navigation problem. Our wind is not necessarily a Killing field. In special we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Rattanasak Hama , Sorin V. Sabau

In this work, we extend for the first time the spherically symmetric Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-De Sitter solutions with a Finsler-Randers-type perturbation which is generated by a covector $A_\gamma$. This gives a locally anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-06 A. Triantafyllopoulos , S. Basilakos , E. Kapsabelis , P. C. Stavrinos

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…

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

We define a completely new space-time starting from the well known Schwarzschild Space time by defining a new polar angle $\phi '= \phi - \omega t$ and then redefining the periodicity: instead of demanding that the original angle be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-31 Arka Prabha Banik , Eduardo Guendelman

We generalize the Zermelo navigation problem and its solution on Riemannian manifolds $(M, h)$ admitting a space dependence of a ship's own speed $|u(x)|_h\leq1$ in the presence of a perturbation $W$ determined by a mild velocity vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Piotr Kopacz

We build a new technique to generate rotation from arbitrary static solutions that asymptote to four- or five-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The method is purely algebraic and does not require solving Einstein equations. It proceeds by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Soumangsu Chakraborty , Pierre Heidmann , Gela Patashuri

Finsler geometry is a natural arena to investigate the physics of spacetimes with local Lorentz violating. The directional dependence of the Finsler metric provides a way to encode the Lorentz violating effects into the geometric structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-29 J. E. G. Silva

We investigate the travel time in a navigation problem from a geometric perspective. The setting involves an open subset of the Euclidean plane, representing a lake perturbed by a symmetric wind flow proportional to the distance from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Newton Solórzano , Víctor León , Alexandre Henrique , Marcelo Souza
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