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2024/105/3-4 (3) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2024.9705 — pp. 305-320

The isoperimetric problem in Randers plane

Authors: Arti Sahu Gangopadhyay Orcid.org link for Arti Sahu Gangopadhyay, Ranadip Gangopadhyay Orcid.org link for Ranadip Gangopadhyay, Hemangi Madhusudan Shah Orcid.org link for Hemangi Madhusudan Shah and <br> Bankteshwar Tiwari Orcid.org link for <br> Bankteshwar Tiwari

Abstract:

In 1947, Busemann observed that a Minkowski circle need not be a solution of the isoperimetric problem in a Minkowski plane. Li and Mo recently showed that the Euclidean circles centred at the origin in a unit ball with the Funk metric are solutions of the isoperimetric problem [9]. In this paper, we construct a class of Randers planes in which any Euclidean circle, centered at the origin in ${\mathbb{R}}^2 $, turns out to be a local minimum of the isoperimetric problem with respect to the various well-known volume forms in Finsler geometry. As a consequence, it turns out that the Euclidean circles centred at the origin are solutions of the isoperimetric problem in a Randers-type Minkowski plane.

Keywords: isoperimetric problem, Randers plane, Minkowski plane, Minkowski circle, calculus of variations

Mathematics Subject Classification: 53B40, 52B60