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The Christoffel problem for the disk area measure

Metric Geometry 2026-01-29 v3 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry

Abstract

The mixed Christoffel problem asks for necessary and sufficient conditions for a Borel measure on the Euclidean unit sphere to be the mixed area measure of some convex bodies, all but one of them are fixed. We consider the case in which the reference bodies are (n1)(n-1)-dimensional disks lying in a fixed hyperplane. We obtain an integral representation that reconstructs the support function of a convex body from its disk area measure, without any regularity assumptions. In the smooth setting, we reformulate the problem as a linear differential equation on the sphere, and derive a necessary and sufficient condition on the density of the disk area measure guaranteeing both convexity and regularity of the solution.

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@article{arxiv.2508.09800,
  title  = {The Christoffel problem for the disk area measure},
  author = {Leo Brauner and Georg C. Hofstätter and Oscar Ortega-Moreno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09800},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages

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