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Bounds for Minkowski Billiard Trajectories in Convex Bodies

Symplectic Geometry 2012-08-31 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we use the Ekeland-Hofer-Zehnder symplectic capacity to provide several bounds and inequalities for the length of the shortest periodic billiard trajectory in a smooth convex body in Rn{\mathbb R}^{n}. Our results hold both for classical billiards, as well as for the more general case of Minkowski billiards.

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@article{arxiv.1111.2353,
  title  = {Bounds for Minkowski Billiard Trajectories in Convex Bodies},
  author = {Shiri Artstein-Avidan and Yaron Ostrover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.2353},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Latex, 26 pages