Rizza manifold


In differential geometry a Rizza manifold, named after Giovanni Battista Rizza, is an almost complex manifold also supporting a Finsler structure: this kind of manifold is also referred as almost Hermitian Finsler manifold.

Historical notes

The history of Rizza manifolds follows the history of the structure that such objects carry. According to, the geometry of complex Finsler structures was first studied in the paper : however, Rizza announced his results nearly two years before, in the short communications and, proving them in the article, nearly one year earlier than the one cited by Kobayashi. Rizza called this differential geometric structure, defined on even-dimensional manifolds, "Struttura di Finsler quasi Hermitiana": his motivation for the introduction of the concept seems to be the aim of comparing two different structures existing on the same manifold. Later started calling this structure "Rizza structure", and manifolds carrying it "Rizza manifolds".

Formal definition

The content of this paragraph closely follows references and, borrowing the scheme of notation equally from both sources. Precisely, given a differentiable manifold M and one of its points x ∈ M
Let M be a 2n-dimensional Finsler manifold, n ≥ 1, and let F : TM → ℝ its Finsler function. If the condition
holds true, then M is a Rizza Manifold.