Nakajima's problem: convex bodies of constant width and constant brightness
Metric Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
For a convex body , the th projection function of assigns to any -dimensional linear subspace of the -volume of the orthogonal projection of to that subspace. Let and be convex bodies in , and let be centrally symmetric and satisfy a weak regularity and curvature condition (which includes all with of class with positive radii of curvature). Assume that and have proportional 1st projection functions (i.e., width functions) and proportional th projection functions. For and for we show that and are homothetic. In the special case where is a Euclidean ball, we thus obtain characterizations of Euclidean balls as convex bodies of constant width and constant -brightness.
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@article{arxiv.math/0601499,
title = {Nakajima's problem: convex bodies of constant width and constant brightness},
author = {Ralph Howard and Daniel Hug},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601499},
year = {2007}
}
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9 pages