Duality of gauges and symplectic forms in vector spaces

DOI10.1007/S13348-020-00297-ZzbMATH Open1482.52010arXiv1901.03421OpenAlexW3038183241MaRDI QIDQ820780FDOQ820780

Authors: Vitor Balestro, Horst Martini, Ralph C. Teixeira 

Publication date: 28 September 2021

Published in: Collectanea Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A gauge $gamma$ in a vector space $X$ is a distance function given by the Minkowski functional associated to a convex body $K$ containing the origin in its interior. Thus, the outcoming concept of gauge spaces $(X,gamma)$ extends that of finite dimensional real Banach spaces by simply neglecting the symmetry axiom (a viewpoint that Minkowski already had in mind). If the dimension of $X$ is even, then the fixation of a symplectic form yields an identification between $X$ and its dual space $X^{*}$ . The image of the polar body $K^{circ}subseteq{X}^{\ast }$ under this identification yields a (skew-)dual gauge on $X$. In this paper, we study geometric properties of this so-called dual gauge, such as its behavior under isometries and its relation to orthogonality. A version of the Mazur-Ulam theorem for gauges is also proved. As an application of the theory, we show that closed characteristics of the boundary of a (smooth) convex body are optimal cases of a certain isoperimetric inequality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03421

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zbMATH Keywords

closed characteristicisometrypolar bodysymplectic formconvex distance functiongeneralized Banach spaceMazur-Ulam theoremgauge spaceasymmetric normdual gauge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Isometric theory of Banach spaces (46B04) Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Normed linear spaces and Banach spaces; Banach lattices (46B99) Symplectic geometry, contact geometry (53D99) Symplectic and canonical mappings (37J11)

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