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for 
a function on the tangent
bundle 
,
and homogeneous of degree 1 in 
. Formally, a Finsler space is a smooth
manifold possessing a Finsler metric. Finsler
geometry is Riemannian geometry without
the restriction that the line element be quadratic
and of the form
