Université Paris-Est Université Paris-Est - Marne-la-Vallée Université Paris-Est - Créteil Val-de-Marne Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Volumes on Finsler Spaces

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Date: 
18/03/2015 - 15:00
Salle: 
4BO8R
Orateur: 
YASSINE Zeina
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The aim of this talk is to give an introduction to volumes on Finsler spaces.
A Finsler metric on a manifold is defined as a Riemannian metric except that its restriction to a tangent plane is no longer an Euclidean norm but a Minkowski norm. Distinct definitions of volume should coincide in the Riemannian case.
I will begin by explaining the notion of volume on a normed space in order to proceed to the Finsler case.