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Convex Bodies of Constant Width and Constant Brightness

Metric Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry Functional Analysis

Abstract

In 1926 S. Nakajima (= A. Matsumura) showed that any convex body in R3\R^3 with constant width, constant brightness, and boundary of class C2C^2 is a ball. We show that the regularity assumption on the boundary is unnecessary, so that balls are the only convex bodies of constant width and brightness.

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@article{arxiv.math/0306437,
  title  = {Convex Bodies of Constant Width and Constant Brightness},
  author = {Ralph Howard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306437},
  year   = {2007}
}

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20 pages

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