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Minimal area of Finsler disks with minimizing geodesics

Metric Geometry 2023-05-08 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that the Holmes--Thompson area of every Finsler disk of radius rr whose interior geodesics are length-minimizing is at least 6πr2\frac{6}{\pi} r^2. Furthermore, we construct examples showing that the inequality is sharp and observe that the equality case is attained by a non-rotationally symmetric metric. This contrasts with Berger's conjecture in the Riemannian case, which asserts that the round hemisphere is extremal. To prove our theorem we discretize the Finsler metric using random geodesics. As an auxiliary result, we show that the integral geometry formulas of Blaschke and Santal\'o hold on Finsler manifolds with almost no trapped geodesics.

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@article{arxiv.2010.00701,
  title  = {Minimal area of Finsler disks with minimizing geodesics},
  author = {Marcos Cossarini and Stéphane Sabourau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.00701},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Published "Online First" in the J. Eur. Math. Soc