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Unique determination of ellipsoids by their dual volumes and the moment problem

Metric Geometry 2020-07-17 v1

Abstract

Gusakova and Zaporozhets conjectured that ellipsoids in Rn\mathbb R^n are uniquely determined (up to an isometry) by their Steiner polynomials. Petrov and Tarasov confirmed this conjecture in R3\mathbb R^3. In this paper we solve the dual problem. We show that any ellipsoid in Rn\mathbb{R}^n centered at the origin is uniquely determined (up to an isometry) by its dual Steiner polynomial. To prove this result we reduce it to a problem of moments. As a by-product we give an alternative proof of the result of Petrov and Tarasov.

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@article{arxiv.2007.08079,
  title  = {Unique determination of ellipsoids by their dual volumes and the moment problem},
  author = {Sergii Myroshnychenko and Kateryna Tatarko and Vladyslav Yaskin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08079},
  year   = {2020}
}