Isosystolic inequalities for optical hypersurfaces

We explore a natural generalization of systolic geometry to Finsler metrics and optical hypersurfaces with special emphasis on its relation to the Mahler conjecture and the geometry of numbers. In particular, we show that if an optical hypersurface of contact type in the cotangent bundle of the 2-di...

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Autores: Alvarez Paiva, Juan Carlos|||0000-0002-1808-4236, Balacheff, Florent Nicolas|||0000-0001-9770-2954, Tzanev, Kroum
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:287712
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/287712
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.aim.2016.07.003
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Convex geometry
Finsler metric
Geometry of numbers
Mahler conjecture
Optical hypersurface
Systolic inequalities
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Sumario:We explore a natural generalization of systolic geometry to Finsler metrics and optical hypersurfaces with special emphasis on its relation to the Mahler conjecture and the geometry of numbers. In particular, we show that if an optical hypersurface of contact type in the cotangent bundle of the 2-dimensional torus encloses a volume V, then it carries a periodic characteristic whose action is at most V/3. This result is deduced from an interesting dual version of Minkowski's lattice-point theorem: if the origin is the unique integer point in the interior of a planar convex body, the area of its dual body is at least 3/2.