Minimal area of Finsler disks with minimizing geodesics

DOI10.4171/JEMS/1339MaRDI QIDQ6350352FDO

Authors Marcos Cossarini, Stéphane Sabourau

Publication date 1 October 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Integral geometry (53C65)

Abstract: We show that the Holmes--Thompson area of every Finsler disk of radius $r$ whose interior geodesics are length-minimizing is at least $frac6pi{r}^2$. Furthermore, we construct examples showing that the inequality is sharp and observe that the equality case is attained by a non-rotationally symmetric metric. This contrasts with Berger's conjecture in the Riemannian case, which asserts that the round hemisphere is extremal. To prove our theorem we discretize the Finsler metric using random geodesics. As an auxiliary result, we show that the integral geometry formulas of Blaschke and Santal'o hold on Finsler manifolds with almost no trapped geodesics.

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