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The Brunn-Minkowski theory relies heavily on the notion of mixed volumes. Despite its particular importance, even explicit representations for the mixed volumes of two convex bodies in Euclidean space are available only in special cases.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Daniel Hug , Jan Rataj , Wolfgang Weil

The notion of warped product plays an important role in Riemannian geometry moreover in geodesic metric spaces. The warped product was first introduced by Bishop and O'Neill to study Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature.Warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Mohammad Aqib , Hemangi Madhusudan Shah , Pankaj Kumar , Anjali Shriwastawa

Finsler geometry motivates a generalization of the Riemannian structure of spacetime to include dependence of the spacetime metric and associated invariant tensor fields on the four-velocity coordinates as well as the spacetime coordinates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard E. Brandt

Finsler metrics are direct generalizations of Riemannian metrics such that the quadratic Riemannian indicatrices in the tangent spaces of a manifold are replaced by more general convex bodies as unit spheres. A linear connection on the base…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Csaba Vincze , Márk Oláh

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

The spherical centroid body of a centrally-symmetric convex body in the Euclidean unit sphere is introduced. Two alternative definitions - one geometric, the other probabilistic in nature - are given and shown to lead to the same objects.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Florian Besau , Thomas Hack , Peter Pivovarov , Franz E. Schuster

The emergence of generalized square metrics in Finsler geometry can be attributed to various classification concerning ({\alpha}, \beta})-metrics. They have excellent geometric properties in Finsler geometry. Within the scope of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Sonia Rani , Vinod Kumar , Mohammad Rafee

By using a certain second order differential equation, the notion of adapted coordinates on Finsler manifolds is defined and some classifications of complete Finsler manifolds are found. Some examples of Finsler metrics, with positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-19 A. Asanjarani , B. Bidabad

A Fuchsian polyhedron in hyperbolic space is a polyhedral surface invariant under the action of a Fuchsian group of isometries (i.e. a group of isometries leaving globally invariant a totally geodesic surface, on which it acts cocompactly).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 François Fillastre

We provide a Finslerian extension of the Schwarzschild metric based on heuristic arguments. The proposed metric asymptotically approaches not the Minkowski space-time but the Bogoslovsky locally anisotropic space-time which arises naturally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Z. K. Silagadze

For a convex body on the Euclidean unit sphere the spherical convex floating body is introduced. The asymptotic behavior of the volume difference of a spherical convex body and its spherical floating body is investigated. This gives rise to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Florian Besau , Elisabeth Werner

Theoretical and observational challenges to standard cosmology such as the cosmological constant problem and tensions between cosmological model parameters inferred from different observations motivate the development and search of new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-30 Lucas Lombriser

We investigate the structure of a Finsler manifold of nonnegative weighted Ricci curvature including a straight line, and extend the classical Cheeger-Gromoll-Lichnerowicz splitting theorem. Such a space admits a diffeomorphic,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Shin-ichi Ohta

The space of anisotropic $r$-contravariant $s$-covariant $\alpha$-homogeneous tensors on a manifold admits a functorial structure where vertical derivatives $\dot{\partial}$ and contractions $\imath_{\mathbb{C}}$ by the Liouville vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Miguel Sánchez , Fidel F. Villaseñor

Here, it is introduced a concept of convolution metric in Finslerian Geometry. This convolution metric is a kind of function obtained by a given mathematical operation between two Finslerian metrics. Some basic properties of the Finslerian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Gilbert Nibaruta

We review the theory of intrinsic geometry of convex surfaces in the Euclidean space and prove the following theorem: if the surface of a convex body K contains arbitrary long closed simple geodesics, then K is an isosceles tetrahedron.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Arseniy Akopyan , Anton Petrunin

The objective of this article is to build up a general theory of geometrical optics for spinning light rays in an inhomogeneous and anisotropic medium modeled on a Finsler manifold. The prerequisites of local Finsler geometry are reviewed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Duval

We investigate the gravitational field of a kinetic gas beyond its usual derivation from the second moment of the one-particle distribution function (1PDF), that serves as energy-momentum tensor in the Einstein equations. This standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu , Annamaria Friedl-Szász , Elena Popovici-Popescu

This paper continues the study of a class of compact convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space $R^{n+1}, ~n \geq 1$, which are boundaries of compact convex bodies obtained by taking the intersection of (solid) confocal paraboloids of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Oliker

Minkowski tensors are comprehensive shape descriptors that robustly capture n-point information in complex random geometries and that have already been extensively applied in the Euclidean plane. Here, we devise a novel framework for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Caroline Collischon , Michael Klatt , Anthony Banday , Manami Sasaki , Christoph Räth