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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

We give an overview on the status and on the perspectives of Finsler gravity, beginning with a discussion of various motivations for considering a Finslerian modification of General Relativity. The subjects covered include Finslerian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Claus Lämmerzahl , Volker Perlick

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

Finslerian extension of the theory of relativity implies that space-time can be not only in an amorphous state which is described by Riemann geometry but also in ordered, i.e. crystalline states which are described by Finsler geometry.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-10 George Yu. Bogoslovsky

We consider the Zermelo navigation problem on the ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) in the presence of a perturbation $W$ determined by a mild velocity vector field, $|W|<1$, with application of Finsler metric of Randers type in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Piotr Kopacz

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

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

For every Finsler metric $F$ we associate a Riemannian metric $g_F$ (called the Binet-Legendre metric). The transformation $F \mapsto g_F$ is $C^0$-stable and has good smoothness properties, in contrast to previous constructions. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Vladimir S. Matveev , Marc Troyanov

Finsler geometry is a natural and fundamental generalization of Riemann geometry. The Finsler structure depends on both coordinates and velocities. It is defined as a function on tangent bundle of a manifold. We use the Bianchi identities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-14 Xin Li , Zhe Chang

Finsler geometry is a natural and fundamental generalization of Riemann geometry, and is a tool to research Lorentz invariance violation. We find the connection between the most general modified dispersion relation and a pseudo-Finsler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Jie Zhu , Bo-Qiang Ma

The proposal of this work is to provide an answer to the following question: is it possible to treat the metric of space-time - that in General Relativity (GR) describes the gravitational interaction - as an effective geometry? In other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Novello

Finsler geometry is a natural generalization of pseudo-Riemannian geometry. It can be motivated e.g. by a modified version of the Ehlers-Pirani-Schild axiomatic approach to space-time theory. Also, some scenarios of quantum gravity suggest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yakov Itin , Claus Lämmerzahl , Volker Perlick

This PhD dissertation covers a range of topics in Finsler geometry and Finsler gravity, most notably: (i) the characterization of Berwald spaces, (ii) pseudo-Riemann (non-)metrizability of Berwald spaces, (iii) $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-24 Sjors Heefer

We develop the kinematics in Matrix Gravity, which is a modified theory of gravity obtained by a non-commutative deformation of General Relativity. In this model the usual interpretation of gravity as Riemannian geometry is replaced by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 Ivan G. Avramidi , Guglielmo Fucci

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

The techniques and analysis presented in this thesis provide new methods to solve optimization problems posed on Riemannian manifolds. These methods are applied to the subspace tracking problem found in adaptive signal processing and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Steven Thomas Smith

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

Geometric mechanics models of locomotion have provided insight into how robots and animals use environmental interactions to convert internal shape changes into displacement through the world, encoding this relationship in a ``motility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ross L. Hatton , Yousef Salaman , Shai Revzen

We present a generalization of the spinor and twistor geometry for on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds enabled with nonholonomic distributions or for Finsler-Cartan spaces modelled on tangent Lorentz bundles. Nonholonomic (Finsler) twistors…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this paper we study the sub-Finsler geometry as a time-optimal control problem. In particular, we consider non-smooth and non-strictly convex sub-Finsler structures associated with the Heisenberg, Grushin, and Martinet distributions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Davide Barilari , Ugo Boscain , Enrico Le Donne , Mario Sigalotti