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We study a relation between certain extensions of the Clifford bundle and Finsler type structures that naturally generalize the standard Clifford relation between (pseudo)-Riemannian metric structures and Dirac matrices. We show for flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

We develop an axiomatic geometric approach and provide an unconventional review of modified gravity theories, MGTs, with modified dispersion relations, MDRs, encoding Lorentz invariance violations, LIVs, classical and quantum random…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We propose a natural Fedosov type quantization of generalized Lagrange models and gravity theories with metrics lifted on tangent bundle, or extended to higher dimension, following some stated geometric/ physical conditions (for instance,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-08 Sergiu I. Vacaru

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

The relationship between spinors and Clifford (or geometric) algebra has long been studied, but little consistency may be found between the various approaches. However, when spinors are defined to be elements of the even subalgebra of some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew R. Francis , Arthur Kosowsky

We review the current status of Finsler-Lagrange geometry and generalizations. The goal is to aid non-experts on Finsler spaces, but physicists and geometers skilled in general relativity and particle theories, to understand the crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We investigate using Clifford algebra methods the theory of algebraic dotted and undotted spinor fields over a Lorentzian spacetime and their realizations as matrix spinor fields, which are the usual dotted and undotted two component spinor…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 E. Capelas de Oliveira , Waldyr A. Rodrigues

We systematically discuss connections on the spinor bundle of Cahen-Wallach symmetric spaces. A large class of these connections is closely connected to a quadratic relation on Clifford algebras. This relation in turn is associated to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Frank Klinker

In a recent paper, algebraic descriptions for all non-relativistic spins were derived by elementary means directly from the Lie algebra $\specialorthogonalliealgebra{3}$, and a connection between spin and the geometry of Euclidean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Peter T. J. Bradshaw

In this paper, we present a theory for gravity coupled with scalar, SU$(n)$ and spinor fields on manifolds with null-boundary. We perform the symplectic reduction of the space of boundary fields and give the constraints of the theory in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Alberto S. Cattaneo , Filippo Fila-Robattino , Valentino Huang , Manuel Tecchiolli

Pinor and spinor fields are sections of the subbundles whose fibers are the representation spaces of the Clifford algebra of the forms, equipped with the Graf product. In this context, pinors and spinors are here considered and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 R. Lopes , R. da Rocha

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

We formulate an approach to the geometry of Riemann-Cartan spaces provided with nonholonomic distributions defined by generic off-diagonal and nonsymmetric metrics inducing effective nonlinear and affine connections. Such geometries can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-19 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In this article we provide a more detailed account of the geometry and topology of the composite bundle formalism introduced by Tresguerres in Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 064025 [1] to accommodate gravitation as a gauge theory. In the first half…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Casey Cartwright , Alex Flournoy

Some general Finsler connections are defined. Emphasis is being made on the Cartan tensor and its derivatives. Vanishing of the hv-curvature tensors of these connections characterizes Landsbergian, Berwaldian as well as Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-16 B. Bidabad , A. Tayebi

We provide observations that Finsler geometry could be useful tools to construct higher-spin theories. We suggest that a Finsler metric of constant flag curvature can be regarded as a metric encoding higher-spin fields. We also show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-10 Zhi-Qiang Guo

I begin by explaining how Riemannian geometry can be understood in terms of principal fibre bundles and connections thereon. I then introduce and motivate the definition of a spinor structure in terms of familiar geometrical ideas. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Morrison

We construct a tangent bundle exponential map and locally autoparallel coordinates for geometries based on a general connection on the tangent bundle of a manifold. As concrete application we use these new coordinates for Finslerian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Christian Pfeifer

Adopting the pullback approach to global Finsler geometry, the aim of the present paper is to provide intrinsic (coordinate-free) proofs of the existence and uniqueness theorems for the Chern (Rund) and Hashiguchi connections on a Finsler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Nabil L. Youssef , S. H. Abed , A. Soleiman

We present for the first time a Friedmann-like construction in the framework of an osculating Finsler-Randers-Sasaki geometry. In particular, we consider a vector field in the metric on a Lorentz tangent bundle, and thus the curvatures of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 E. Kapsabelis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , P. C. Stavrinos