English

Characterizing unit spheres in Euclidean spaces via reach and volume

Differential Geometry 2022-02-15 v1

Abstract

Let MM be a smooth, connected, compact submanifold of Rn\mathbb{R}^n without boundary and of dimension k2k\geq 2. Let SkRk+1Rn\mathbb{S}^k \subset \mathbb{R}^{k+1}\subset \mathbb{R}^n denote the kk-dimesnional unit sphere. We show if MM has reach equal to one, then its volume satisfies vol(M)vol(Sk)\text{vol}(M)\geq \text{vol}(\mathbb{S}^k) with equality holding only if MM is congruent to Sk\mathbb{S}^k.

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@article{arxiv.2202.06161,
  title  = {Characterizing unit spheres in Euclidean spaces via reach and volume},
  author = {Mark Iwen and Benjamin Schmidt and Arman Tavakoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.06161},
  year   = {2022}
}