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On Minkowski constants of Veech surfaces
Author(s) -
Wu Shengjian,
Zhong Yumin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the london mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.441
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1469-7750
pISSN - 0024-6107
DOI - 10.1112/jlms/jdu060
Subject(s) - disjoint sets , minkowski space , holonomy , mathematics , surface (topology) , characterization (materials science) , combinatorics , ellipse , pure mathematics , geometry , physics , optics
For a Veech surface, we give a characterization of, and an algorithm for computing, the largest possible area of ellipses symmetric with respect to the origin and disjoint from the set of holonomy vectors.