Metric and isoperimetric problems in symplectic geometry

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 411-431

  Viterbo, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Billiards; Isoperimetric problems; Lagrangian submanifolds; Minimal submanifolds; Symplectic geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034385810     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0894-0347-00-00328-3     Document Type: Article

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