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Self-dual polytope and self-dual smooth Wulff shape

Metric Geometry 2023-07-21 v1

Abstract

For any Wulff shape W\mathcal{W}, its dual Wulff shape and spherical Wulff shape W~\widetilde{\mathcal{W}} can be defined naturally. A self-dual Wulff shape is a Wulff shape equaling its dual Wulff shape exactly. In this paper, we show that if a spherical convex polytope PP is of constant width δ\delta, then δ=π/2\delta=\pi/2. As an application of this fact, we prove that a polytope Wulff shape is self-dual if and only if its spherical Wulff shape is a spherical convex body of constant width. We also prove that a smooth Wulff shape is self-dual if and only if for any interior point PP of W~\widetilde{\mathcal{W}} and for any point QQ of the intersection of the boundary of W~\widetilde{\mathcal{W}} and the graph of its spherical support function (with respect to PP), the image of QQ under the spherical blow-up (with respect to PP) is always a boundary point of W~\widetilde{\mathcal{W}}.

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@article{arxiv.2307.10861,
  title  = {Self-dual polytope and self-dual smooth Wulff shape},
  author = {Huhe Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10861},
  year   = {2023}
}

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