A new definition for lifts and lowerings is given, linking the different tensor algebras involved in the usual treatment of Finsler manifolds. By means of them, the relation between the different classes of linear connections is made clearer.
We study conformal and Killing vector fields on the unit tangent bundle, over a Riemannian manifold, equipped with an arbitrary pseudo-Riemannian -natural metric. We characterize the conformal and Killing conditions for classical lifts of vector fields and we give a full classification of conformal fiber-preserving vector fields on the unit tangent bundle endowed with an arbitrary pseudo-Riemannian Kaluza-Klein type metric.
We see how the first jet bundle of curves into affine space can be realized as a homogeneous space of the Galilean group. Cartan connections with this model are precisely the geometric structure of second-order ordinary differential equations under time-preserving transformations - sometimes called KCC-theory. With certain regularity conditions, we show that any such Cartan connection induces “laboratory” coordinate systems, and the geodesic equations in this coordinates form a system of second-order...
We characterize generalized Douglas-Weyl Randers metrics in terms of their Zermelo navigation data. Then, we study the Randers metrics induced by some important classes of almost contact metrics. Furthermore, we construct a family of generalized Douglas-Weyl Randers metrics which are not -quadratic. We show that the Randers metric induced by a Kenmotsu manifold is a Douglas metric which is not of isotropic -curvature. We show that the Randers metric induced by a Kenmotsu or Sasakian manifold is...
In this paper, we study the characterization of generalized -harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds. We prove that a map between Riemannian manifolds is an -harmonic morphism if and only if it is a horizontally weakly conformal map satisfying some further conditions. We present new properties generalizing Fuglede-Ishihara characterization for harmonic morphisms ([Fuglede B., Harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 28 (1978), 107–144], [Ishihara T., A...
The purpose of the present paper is to study generalized M-projectively recurrent manifolds. Some geometric properties of generalized M projectively recurrent manifolds have been studied under certain curvature conditions. An application of such a manifold in the theory of relativity has also been shown. Finally, we give an example of a generalized M-projectively recurrent manifold.