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Area Minimization Among Group-Invariant Planar Convex Bodies of Constant Width

Metric Geometry 2026-08-05 v1 Functional Analysis Group Theory

Abstract

The classical Blaschke--Lebesgue theorem identifies the Reuleaux triangle as the planar convex body of constant width with minimum area. We investigate this extremal problem under prescribed symmetry constraints. Specifically, we classify the minimum-area convex bodies of constant width that are invariant under a finite group GG of isometries of R2\mathbb{R}^2 fixing the origin. For the exceptional reflection group D1D_1, the minimizers are precisely the Reuleaux triangles invariant under the prescribed reflection. If GG contains the half-turn Rπ\mathcal R_\pi, the disk is the unique minimizer. For odd n3n\geq 3, the minimizers are regular Reuleaux nn-gons, unique up to rotation in the cyclic case CnC_n, and exactly those satisfying the prescribed reflection symmetry in the dihedral case DnD_n.

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@article{arxiv.2608.05125,
  title  = {Area Minimization Among Group-Invariant Planar Convex Bodies of Constant Width},
  author = {Javier Falco and Sergii Myroshnychenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.05125},
  year   = {2026}
}

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19 pages, 2 figures