Finsleroid-Space Supplemented by Angle.pdf

a r X i v : m a t h - p h / 0 3 1 0 0 1 9 v 1 1 3 O c t 2 0 0 3 Finsleroid-Space Supplemented by Angle G.S. Asanov Division of Theoretical Physics, Moscow State University 119992 Moscow, Russia (e-mail: asanov@newmail.ru) Abstract Our previous exploration of the EPDg -geometry has shown that the field is promising. Namely, the EPDg -approach is amenable to development of novel trends in relativistic and metric differential geometry and can particularly be effective in context of the Finslerian or Minkowskian Geometries. The main point of the present paper is the tenet that the EPDg -space-associated one-vector Finslerian metric function admits in quite a natural way an attractive two-vector extension, thereby giving rise to angle and scalar product. The underlying idea is to derive the angular measure from the solutions to the geodesic equa- tion, which prove to be obtainable in an explicit simple form. The respective investigation is presented in Part I. Part II serves as an extended Addendum enclosing the material which is primary for the EPDg -space. The Finsleroid, instead of the unit sphere, is taken now as carrier proper of the spherical image. The indicatrix is, of course, our primary tool. 1INTRODUCTION Various known attempts to introduce the concept of angle in the Minkowskian or Finslerian spaces [1-8] were steadily encountered with drawback positions: ”Therefore no particular angular measure can be entirely natural in Minkowski ge- ometry. This is evidenced by the innumerable attempts to define such a measure, none of which found general acceptance“. (Busemann [2], p. 279.) ”Unfortunately, there exists a number of distinct invariants in a Minkowskian space all of which reduce to the same classical euclidean invariant if the Minkowskian space degenerates into a euclidean space. Consequently, distinct definitions of the trigonometric functions and of angles have appeared in the literature concerning Minkowskian and Finsler spaces“. (Rund [3], p. 26) Th