A Sampler of Riemann-Finsler Geometry [Paperback]

These expository accounts treat issues related to volume, geodesics, curvature and mathematical biology, with instructive examples.Expository accounts of six important topics in Finsler geometry suitable for a special-topics graduate course in differential geometry. They treat issues related to volume, geodesics, curvature and mathematical biology, and provide a good variety of instructive examples.Expository accounts of six important topics in Finsler geometry suitable for a special-topics graduate course in differential geometry. They treat issues related to volume, geodesics, curvature and mathematical biology, and provide a good variety of instructive examples.Finsler geometry generalizes Riemannian geometry in the same sense that Banach spaces generalize Hilbert spaces. This book presents an expository account of seven important topics in Riemann-Finsler geometry, ones which have recently undergone significant development but have not had a detailed pedagogical treatment elsewhere. Each article will open the door to an active area of research, and is suitable for a special topics course in graduate-level differential geometry. The contributors consider issues related to volume, geodesics, curvature, complex differential geometry, and parametrized jet bundles, and include a variety of instructive examples.Preface; Synopses; 1. Volumes on normed and Finsler spaces J. C. ?lverez Paiva and A. C. Thompson; 2. Anisotropic and crystalline mean curvature flow Giovanni Bellettini; 3. Finsler geometry on complex vector bundles Tadashi Aikou; 4. Finsler geometry of holomorphic jet bundles Karen Chandler and Pit-Mann Wong; 5. Ricci and flag curvatures in Finsler geometry David Bao and Colleen Robles; 6. Nonreversible Finsler metrics of positive flag curvature Hans-Bert Rademacher; 7. Landsberg curvature, S-curvature and Riemann curvature Zhongmin Shen; Index.