The study of manifolds having a complete Riemannian metric. Riemannian geometry is a general space based on the line element

with for a function on the tangent bundle . In addition, is homogeneous of degree 1 in and of the form

(Chern 1996). If this restriction is dropped, the resulting geometry is called Finsler geometry.

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