The entropy of Lagrange-Finsler spaces and Ricci flows (Q2270473)

The present paper is a possible extension of Perelman's approach to Ricci flows in order to derive the evolution equations for Lagrange and Finsler geometries. Moreover, in the final part a statistical analogue of regular mechanical systems is discussed. The author is following quite closely the classical theory using for the extension the Levi-Civita connection of the Sasaki metric induces by a Lagrange or Finsler structure on the tangent space. The concrete evolution equations are computed in the paper. This seems to be one of the first attempts to apply the celebrated theory of Ricci flows to more general manifolds than Riemannian ones. Even though the paper in the present form contains merely the setting of such an attempt, one can expect further developments of this approach that will clarify the topological properties of Lagrange and Finslerian structures.