Geodesic and curvature of piecewise flat Finsler surfaces (Q1651372)

The authors of the paper find out the properties of geodesics in two classes of piecewise flat Finsler surfaces (namely, Landsberg type and Berwald type), especially when it meets a vertex. Further they obtained an explicit condition for a geodesic to be extendable at a vertex, and define the curvature which measures the \textit{amount} of such extensions and proved a combinatoric Gauss-Bonnet formula which generalizes both the Gauss-Bonnet formulas for piecewise flat Riemannian manifolds and for smooth Landsberg surfaces. The result obtained by them are useful for the standpoint of the Finsler geometry.