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The quotient girth of normed spaces, and an extension of Schäffer's dual girth conjecture to Grassmannians

In this note we introduce a natural Finsler structure on convex surfaces, referred to as the projective Finsler structure, which is dual in a sense to the obvious inclusion of a convex surface in a normed space. It has an associated projective girth, which is similar to the notion of girth defined by Schäffer. We prove the analogs of Schäffer's dual girth conjecture (proved by Álvarez-Paiva) and the Holmes-Thompson dual volumes theorem in the projective setting. We then show that the projective Finsler structure admits a natural extension to higher Grassmannians, and prove the corresponding theorems in the general case. We follow Álvarez-Paiva's approach to the problem, namely, we study the symplectic geometry of the associated co-ball bundles. For the higher Grassmannians, the theory of Hamiltonian actions is applied.