In the last decade several international conferences on Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton geometries were organized in Bra ov, Romania (1994), Seattle, USA (1995), Edmonton, Canada (1998), besides the Seminars that periodically are held in Japan and Romania. All these meetings produced important progress in the field and brought forth the appearance of some reference volumes. Along this line, a new International Conference on Finsler and Lagrange Geometry took place August 26-31,2001 at the "Al.I.Cuza" University in Ia i, Romania. This Conference was organized in the framework of a Memorandum of...
In the last decade several international conferences on Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton geometries were organized in Bra ov, Romania (1994), Seattle, U...
Differential-geometric methods are gaining increasing importance in the understanding of a wide range of fundamental natural phenomena. Very often, the starting point for such studies is a variational problem formulated for a convenient Lagrangian. From a formal point of view, a Lagrangian is a smooth real function defined on the total space of the tangent bundle to a manifold satisfying some regularity conditions. The main purpose of this book is to present: (a) an extensive discussion of the geometry of the total space of a vector bundle; (b) a detailed exposition of Lagrange geometry; and...
Differential-geometric methods are gaining increasing importance in the understanding of a wide range of fundamental natural phenomena. Very often, th...
