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An Introduction to Riemann-Finsler Geometry
In this book, the reader will find a comprehensive account of that part of
Finsler geometry that is approachable by Riemannian and infinitesimal
techniques. Among the topics covered, we find the Chern connection and
the theorems of Gauss-Bonnet, Hopf-Rinow, Bonnet-Myers, and Cartan-Hadamard.
There are many examples of symmetric and non-symmetric Finsler spaces with
explicit formulas and calculations.
Differential Geometry of Spray and Finsler Geometry
In this work, Shen studies Finsler manifolds, manifolds provided with a
second order ODE (i.e., a spray), as well as Finsler manifolds provided
with a volume form as a supplementary geometric structure. The book
is a good survey of infinitesimal techniques in Finsler and path
geometry. It also contains some new results and introduces a new
invariant, the S curvature, which together with the curvature
controls the volume of geodesic balls on Finsler spaces.
Unfortunately, because of copyright constraints, these books can no
longer be obtained electronically.
Geometric meanings of cuvatures in Finsler geometry
This paper is a well-written survey of the different notions of curvature
in Finsler geometry and their relation to Minkowski spaces, behaviour
of geodesics, and comparison geometry.
Volumes in normed and Finsler spaces
This paper is a survey of the theory of volumes and area integrands in normed
and Finsler spaces. It contains a (hopefully) comprehensible presentation of
Busemann's theory of convexity on Grassmannians that should be of interest to
people working on geometric measure theory and variational calculus.
by D. Bao, S.S Chern, and Z. Shen
by Z. Shen
by Z. Shen
by J.C. Álvarez Paiva and A. Thompson