Symplectically convex and symplectically star-shaped curves: a variational problem

DOI10.1007/S11784-022-00931-2MaRDI QIDQ2124783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Albers, S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 11 April 2022

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14797

zbMATH Keywords

affine isoperimetric inequalityinfinitesimal rigiditysymplectic spacesymplectically convexsymplectically star-shaped curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99) Variants of convex sets (star-shaped, ((m, n))-convex, etc.) (52A30) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Symplectic geometry, contact geometry (53D99)

Abstract: In this article we propose a generalization of the 2-dimensional notions of convexity resp. being star-shaped to symplectic vector spaces. We call such curves symplectically convex resp. symplectically star-shaped. After presenting some basic results we study a family of variational problems for symplectically convex and symplectically star-shaped curves which is motivated by the affine isoperimetric inequality. These variational problems can be reduced back to two dimensions. For a range of the family parameter extremal points of the variational problem are rigid: they are multiply traversed conics. For all family parameters we determine when non-trivial first and second order deformations of conics exist. In the last section we present some conjectures and questions and two galleries created with the help of a Mathematica applet by Gil Bor.

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