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Stable norms of non-orientable surfaces

Differential Geometry 2014-10-03 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We study the stable norm on the first homology of a closed, non-orientable surface equipped with a Riemannian metric. We prove that in every conformal class there exists a metric whose stable norm is polyhedral. Furthermore the stable norm is never strictly convex if the first Betti number of the surface is greater than two.

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@article{arxiv.math/0703667,
  title  = {Stable norms of non-orientable surfaces},
  author = {Florent Balacheff and Daniel Massart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0703667},
  year   = {2014}
}
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