Dual spheres have the same girth

Abstract

Symplectic and Finsler geometry are used to settle a conjecture of Schäffer stating that the girth of a normed space--the infimum of the lengths of all closed, rectifiable, centrally symmetric curves on its unit sphere--equals the girth of its dual.

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