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arxiv: math/0408414 · v1 · pith:ETG276KUnew · submitted 2004-08-30 · 🧮 math.MG · math.SG

Dual spheres have the same girth

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keywords girthdualaffercentrallyclosedconjecturecurvesfinsler
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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.

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