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A note on the concurrent normal conjecture

Metric Geometry 2023-09-07 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

It is conjectured since long that for any convex body KRnK \in \mathbb{R}^n there exists a point in the interior of KK which belongs to at least 2n2n normals from different points on the boundary of KK. The conjecture is known to be true for n=2,3,4n=2,3,4. Motivated by a recent preprint of Y. Martinez-Maure, we give a short proof of his result: for dimension n3n\geq 3, under mild conditions, almost every normal through a boundary point to a smooth convex body KRnK\in \mathbb{R}^n contains an intersection point of at least 66 normals from different points on the boundary of KK.

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@article{arxiv.2202.01436,
  title  = {A note on the concurrent normal conjecture},
  author = {A. Grebennikov and G. Panina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.01436},
  year   = {2023}
}