The tangent bundle exponential map and locally autoparallel coordinates for general connections on the tangent bundle with application to Finsler geometry (Q2802579)

The author has constructed a tangent bundle exponential map and locally autoparallel coordinates for geometries based on a general connection on the tangent bundle of a manifold. These new coordinates are then used for Finslerian geometries and Finslerian geodesic coordinates are obtained.NEWLINENEWLINE As it is mentioned in the abstract of this paper, ``they generalize normal coordinates known from metric geometry to Finsler geometric manifolds and it turns out that they are identical to the Douglas-Thomas normal coordinates introduced earlier''. Then the author expands the Finsler Lagrangian of a Finsler spacetime in these new coordinates and finds that it is constant to quadratic order. As mentioned in the abstract, ``the quadratic term comes with the nonlinear curvature of the manifold. From a physical point of view these coordinates may be interpreted as the realisation of an Einstein elevator in Finslerian spacetime geometries''.