Self perimeter of convex sets
Abstract
This paper introduces a natural definition for the volume of the unit ball in -dimensional normed spaces . This definition preserves the Euclidean relation between the perimiter and the volume of the unit ball in . We show that this volume definition is invariant under origin-preserving affine transformations and polar duality. For , we derive an explicit integral formula for the self-perimeter of the unit ball, extend it to non-centrally symmetric sets;. The construction is extended to via a recursive integration over the boundary, utilizing -dimensional volumes of planar intersections. Finally, we pose and discuss an Alexandrov-type problem for the associated surface measure, providing perturbative solutions in the 2D case. In particular we prove that, generically, any perturbation of the surface measure of the Euclidean 2-D disk yields a 4-fold symmetric convex set in the leading order.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.01950,
title = {Self perimeter of convex sets},
author = {Gershon Wolansky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01950},
year = {2026}
}
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20 pages