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Volume entropy of Hilbert Geometries

Differential Geometry 2010-05-21 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

It is shown that the volume entropy of a Hilbert geometry associated to an nn-dimensional convex body of class C1,1C^{1,1} equals n1n-1. To achieve this result, a new projective invariant of convex bodies, similar to the centro-affine area, is constructed. In the case n=2n=2, and without any assumption on the boundary, it is shown that the entropy is bounded above by 23d1\frac{2}{3-d} \leq 1, where dd is the Minkowski dimension of the extremal set of KK. An example of a plane Hilbert geometry with entropy strictly between 0 and 1 is constructed.

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@article{arxiv.0810.1123,
  title  = {Volume entropy of Hilbert Geometries},
  author = {Gautier Berck and Andreas Bernig and Constantin Vernicos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1123},
  year   = {2010}
}

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27 pages; minor changes

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