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Floating bodies and duality in spaces of constant curvature

Metric Geometry 2023-11-07 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We investigate a natural analog to Lutwak's pp-affine surface area in dd-dimensional spherical, hyperbolic and de Sitter space. In particular, we show that these curvature measures appear naturally as the volume derivative of floating bodies of non-Euclidean convex bodies conjugated by duality, such as spherical, hyperbolic and de Sitter convex bodies. We provide a unifying framework by establishing a real-analytic version of this relation controlled by the constant curvature of the dd-dimensional real space form. These new curvature measures relate in two distinctly different ways to curvature measures on Euclidean space, one of which is Lutwak's centro-affine invariant pp-affine surface area, and the other is related to a rigid-motion invariant curvature measure that appears naturally as the volume derivative of Schneider's mean-width separation body.

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@article{arxiv.2311.03070,
  title  = {Floating bodies and duality in spaces of constant curvature},
  author = {Florian Besau and Elisabeth M. Werner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.03070},
  year   = {2023}
}

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40 pages, 9 figures