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Elementary approach to closed billiard trajectories in asymmetric normed spaces

Metric Geometry 2016-08-24 v4 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We apply the technique of K\'aroly Bezdek and Daniel Bezdek to study billiard trajectories in convex bodies, when the length is measured with a (possibly asymmetric) norm. We prove a lower bound for the length of the shortest closed billiard trajectory, related to the non-symmetric Mahler problem. With this technique we are able to give short and elementary proofs to some known results.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0442,
  title  = {Elementary approach to closed billiard trajectories in asymmetric normed spaces},
  author = {Arseniy V. Akopyan and Alexey M. Balitskiy and Roman N. Karasev and Anastasia Sharipova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0442},
  year   = {2016}
}

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