TITLE: Alexandrov geometry techniques  for Finsler manifolds.
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: Hi, first I would like to apologize for my English. It's not my native language and I feel my grasp of it is limited.
I've been reading Burago's book on metric geometry  and  I've that it mentions Finsler manifolds as an example of Alexandrov space. However it restricts to reversible Finsler metrics $F(x, \lambda y) = |\lambda|F(x,y).$
In general Finsler metrics only hold this:
$$F(x, \lambda y) = \lambda F(x,y) \quad \lambda > 0. $$
The problem is that since the goal of book is to study a metric induced like this:
$$d_{F}(x,y) = \inf_{\gamma}\int_{a}^{b}F(\gamma,\dot{\gamma})dt.$$
The resulting distance in the general case is not symmetric.My question is:
Does anyone know any approach that might be pursued to use similar techniques as those presented in the book to study Finsler manifolds in the general case?

REPLY [4 votes]: There is a generalization of the Alexandrov curvature conditions in the dissertation `Construction of compatible Finsler structures on locally compact length spaces' of M.G. Knecht.  He shows that a length space with this curvature condition has a differentiable structure and a Finsler function that generates the original lengths. The differentiable structure and the Finsler function are not $C^\infty$ though.