2024/105/3-4 (3)
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DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2024.9705
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pp. 305-320
The isoperimetric problem in Randers plane
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

