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Shallow sections of the hypercube

Metric Geometry 2023-08-10 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Consider a dd-dimensional closed ball BB whose center coincides with that of the hypercube [0,1]d[0,1]^d. Pick the radius of BB in such a way that the vertices of the hypercube are outside of BB and the midpoints of its edges in the interior of BB. It is known that, when d3d\geq3, the (d1)(d-1)-dimensional volume of H[0,1]dH\cap[0,1]^d, where HH is a hyperplane of Rd\mathbb{R}^d tangent to BB, is largest possible if and only if HH is orthogonal to a diagonal of the hypercube. It is shown here that the same holds when d5d\geq5 but the interior of BB is only required to contain the centers of the square faces of the hypercube.

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@article{arxiv.2104.08484,
  title  = {Shallow sections of the hypercube},
  author = {Lionel Pournin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08484},
  year   = {2023}
}

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19 pages

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