Kinematic formulas for sets defined by differences of convex functions
Abstract
Two of the authors have defined the class as the class of all subsets of a smooth manifold that may be expressed in local coordinates as certain sublevel sets of DC (differences of convex) functions. If is Riemanian and is a group of isometries acting transitively on the sphere bundle , we define the invariant curvature measures of compact \WDC~ subsets of , and show that pairs of such subsets are subject to the array of kinematic formulas known to apply to smoother sets. Restricting to the case , this extends and subsumes Federer's theory of sets with positive reach in an essential way. The key technical point is equivalent to a sharpening of a classical theorem of Ewald, Larman, and Rogers characterizing the dimension of the set of directions of line segments lying in the boundary of a given convex body.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.03388,
title = {Kinematic formulas for sets defined by differences of convex functions},
author = {Joseph H. G. Fu and Dusan Pokorny and Jan Rataj},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03388},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
26 pages. Further minor revisions