Dual spheres have the same girth

DOI10.1353/AJM.2006.0015zbMATH Open1106.46010arXivmath/0408414OpenAlexW2131776120MaRDI QIDQ5477603FDOQ5477603

Authors: J. C. Álvarez Paiva 

Publication date: 5 July 2006

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Symplectic and Finsler geometry are used to settle a conjecture of Sch"affer stating that the girth of a normed space--the infimum of the lengths of all closed, rectifiable, centrally symmetric curves on its unit sphere--equals the girth of its dual.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408414

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesiclength spectrumgirthsystoledual unit sphereco-disc bundleexact contactomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

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