Curvatures and hyperbolic flows for natural mechanical systems in Finsler geometry (Q2120301)

The author considers a natural mechanical system on a Finsler manifold and studies its curvature using the intrinsic Jacobi equations (called Jacobi curves) along the extremals of the least action of the system. The curvature for such a system is expressed in terms of the Riemann curvature and the Chern curvature (involving the gradient of the potential) of the Finsler manifold and the Hessian of the potential w.r.t. a Riemannian metric induced from the Finsler metric. As an application, the author gives sufficient conditions for the Hamiltonian flows of the least action to be hyperbolic and shows new examples of Anosov flows.