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In 1941, G. Randers [Ra] studied a very interesting type of Finsler structures. These are called Randers metrics, and we first encountered them in ยง1.3. Randers metrics are important for six reasons.
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Bao, D., Chern, SS., Shen, Z. (2000). Randers Spaces and an Elegant Theorem. In: An Introduction to Riemann-Finsler Geometry. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 200. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1268-3_11
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