ISBN : 9789811296673
Author : Qiaoling Xia
Publisher : World Scientific
Year : 2025
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : Finsler geometry is just Riemannian geometry without a quadratic restriction. It has applications in many fields of natural sciences, including physics, psychology, and ecology. The book is intended to provide basic materials on Finsler geometry for readers and to bring them to the frontiers of active research on related topics. This book is comprised of three parts. In Part I (Chapters 1–4), the author introduces the basics, such as Finsler metrics, the Chern connection, geometric invariant quantities, etc., and gives some rigidity results on Finsler manifolds with certain curvature properties. Part II (Chapters 5–6) covers the theory of geodesics,