Rigidity in the Planar Ulam Floating Body Problem with perimetral density $\sigma=\tfrac16$
Metric Geometry
2026-04-14 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs
Abstract
We study the two-dimensional Ulam's floating body problem for convex domains with perimetral density . Using the framework of Zindler carousels, we reduce the problem to a two-dimensional dynamical system associated with an inscribed equilateral hexagon. Our main result shows that the disk is the only convex domain floating in equilibrium in every position for this perimetral density. This provides a new rigidity result for rational perimetral densities in the convex setting.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.10330,
title = {Rigidity in the Planar Ulam Floating Body Problem with perimetral density $\sigma=\tfrac16$},
author = {Oleg Asipchuk and Maksim Kosmakov and Pavel Zatitskii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10330},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
16 pages, 5 figures