Stable Norms of Surfaces: Local Structure of the Unit Ball at Rational Directions

Geometric and Functional Analysis - Tập 7 - Trang 996-1010 - 1997
D. Massart1
1Daniel Massart, Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliqués, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, F-69364 Lyon cedex 07, France, e-mail: [email protected], , FR

Tóm tắt

Let (M, g) be a closed orientable surface, equipped with a smooth Finsler metric. The metric induces a norm on the real homology of M, called a stable norm. We show this norm is neither strictly convex, nor smooth.