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In this work we study an anisotropic model of general relativity based on the framework of Finsler geometry. The observed anisotropy of the microwave background radiation is incorporated in the Finslerian structure of space-time. We also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. Stavrinos , F. I. Diakogiannis

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

We develop a geometric convergence theory for neural-network optimization within the minimizing movement scheme (MMS) framework. Reformulating each neural MMS step as a minimization over the set of increments in a Hilbert space, we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Shixin Zheng , Yiwei Wang , Haizhao Yang

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

Optimization techniques are at the core of many scientific and engineering disciplines. The steepest descent methods play a foundational role in this area. In this paper we studied a generalized steepest descent method on Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Rashid A. , Amal A Samad

Motivated in part by the bi-gravity approach to massive gravity, we introduce and study the multimetric Finsler geometry. For the case of an arbitrary number of dimensions, we study some general properties of the geometry in terms of its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Patrícia Carvalho , Cristian Landri , Ravi Mistry , Aleksandr Pinzul

We study the problem of finding the global Riemannian center of mass of a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. Specifically, we investigate the convergence of constant step-size gradient descent algorithms for solving this problem.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Bijan Afsari , Roberto Tron , René Vidal

Robotic motion optimization often focuses on task-specific solutions, overlooking fundamental motion principles. Building on Riemannian geometry and the calculus of variations (often appearing as indirect methods of optimal control), we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jinwoo Choi , Alejandro Cabrera , Ross L. Hatton

We study the free motion of a massive particle moving in the background of a Finslerian deformation of a plane gravitational wave in Einstein's General Relativity. The deformation is a curved version of a one-parameter family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 M. Elbistan , P. -M. Zhang , N. Dimakis , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

This paper considers the analysis of continuous time gradient-based optimization algorithms through the lens of nonlinear contraction theory. It demonstrates that in the case of a time-invariant objective, most elementary results on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Patrick M. Wensing , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

We propose a geometric model for optimal shape-change-induced motions of slender locomotors, e.g., snakes slithering on sand. In these scenarios, the motion of a body in world coordinates is completely determined by the sequence of shapes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Oliver Gross , Florine Hartwig , Martin Rumpf , Peter Schröder

The book contains a collection of works on Riemann-Cartan and metric-affine manifolds provided with nonlinear connection structure and on generalized Finsler-Lagrange and Cartan-Hamilton geometries and Clifford structures modelled on such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Vacaru , P. Stavrinos , E. Gaburov , D. Gonţa

Given a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, compact and without boundary, we analyze the dynamical optimal mass transport problem where the cost is given by the sum of the kinetic energy and the relative entropy with respect to a reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Gabriele Bocchi , Alessio Porretta

This article aims to derive equations of motion for dynamical systems with angular momentum on Finsler geometries. To this end, we apply Souriau's Principle of General Covariance, which is a geometrical framework to derive diffeomorphism…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Loïc Marsot , Yuzhang Liu

In this paper a compact Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary is reconstructed from its partial travel time data. This data assumes that an open measurement region on the boundary is given, and that for every point in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Ella Pavlechko , Teemu Saksala

In this article, we review some aspects of gravitational field and cosmology based on Finsler and Finsler-like generalized metric structures. The geometrical framework of these spaces allows further investigation of locally-anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 P. C. Stavrinos , A. Triantafyllopoulos

We present a rigorous generalization of the classical Ginzburg--Landau model to smooth, compact Finsler manifolds without boundary. This framework provides a natural analytic setting for describing anisotropic superconductivity within…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-31 Y. Alipour Fakhri

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

This work is a geometrical approach to the optimization problem motivated by transportation system management. First, an attempt has been made to furnish a comprehensive account of geometric programming based on the elementary Finsler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Azam Asanjarani

We show that the travel time difference functions, measured on the boundary, determine a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary up to Riemannian isometry, if boundary satisfies a certain visibility condition. This corresponds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Maarten V. de Hoop , Teemu Saksala