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A complete characterization of Radon planes whose unit spheres are regular polygons

Functional Analysis 2024-08-23 v2

Abstract

We study the structure of the unit sphere of polygonal Radon planes from a geometric point of view. In particular, we prove that a 2 2 -dimensional real polygonal Banach space X \mathbb{X} cannot be a Radon plane if the number of vertices of its unit sphere is 4n, 4n, for some nN. n \in \mathbb{N}. We next obtain a complete characterization of polygonal Radon planes in terms of a tractable geometric concept introduced in this article. It follows from our characterization that every regular polygon with 4n+2 4n+2 vertices, where nN, n \in \mathbb{N}, is the unit sphere of a Radon plane. We further give example of a family of Radon planes for which the unit spheres are hexagons, but not regular ones.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04760,
  title  = {A complete characterization of Radon planes whose unit spheres are regular polygons},
  author = {Kalidas Mandal and Debmalya Sain and Kallol Paul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04760},
  year   = {2024}
}
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