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On a Dowker-type problem for convex disks with almost constant curvature

Metric Geometry 2024-02-08 v2

Abstract

A classical result of Dowker (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50: 120-122, 1944) states that for any plane convex body KK, the areas of the maximum (resp. minimum) area convex nn-gons inscribed (resp. circumscribed) in KK is a concave (resp. convex) sequence. It is known that this theorem remains true if we replace area by perimeter, or convex nn-gons by disk-nn-gons, obtained as the intersection of nn closed Euclidean unit disks. It has been proved recently that if CC is the unit disk of a normed plane, then the same properties hold for the area of CC-nn-gons circumscribed about a CC-convex disk KK and for the perimeters of CC-nn-gons inscribed or circumscribed about a CC-convex disk KK, but for a typical origin-symmetric convex disk CC with respect to Hausdorff distance, there is a CC-convex disk KK such that the sequence of the areas of the maximum area CC-nn-gons inscribed in KK is not concave. The aim of this paper is to investigate this question if we replace the topology induced by Hausdorff distance with a topology induced by the surface area measure of the boundary of CC.

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@article{arxiv.2308.02378,
  title  = {On a Dowker-type problem for convex disks with almost constant curvature},
  author = {Bushra Basit and Zsolt Lángi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02378},
  year   = {2024}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures