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Consider random shadows of a cube and of a regular tetrahedron. Area and perimeter of the former are positively dependent (with correlation 0.915...), whereas area and perimeter of the latter appear to be negatively dependent. This is only…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Steven R. Finch

Spectrahedra are affine-linear sections of the cone $\mathcal{P}_n$ of positive semidefinite symmetric $n\times n$-matrices. We consider random spectrahedra that are obtained by intersecting~$\mathcal{P}_n$ with the affine-linear space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Paul Breiding , Khazhgali Kozhasov , Antonio Lerario

The chord length probability density of the regular octahedron is explicitly evaluated throughout its full range of distances by separating it into three contributions respectively due to the pairs of facets opposite to each other or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Salvino Ciccariello

We show that the expected value of the mean width of a random polytope generated by $N$ random vectors ($n\leq N\leq e^{\sqrt n}$) uniformly distributed in an isotropic convex body in $\R^n$ is of the order $\sqrt{\log N} L_K$. This…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-29 David Alonso-Gutierrez , Joscha Prochno

This paper focuses on curves and surfaces of constant width, with some additional results about general ovals. We emphasize the use of Fourier series to derive properties, some of which are known. Amongst other results, we show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Howard L. Resnikoff

We investigate a novel setting for polytope rigidity, where a flex must preserve edge lengths and the planarity of faces, but is allowed to change the shapes of faces. For instance, the regular cube is flexible in this notion. We present…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Matthias Himmelmann , Bernd Schulze , Martin Winter

This paper contains a new concept to measure the width and thickness of a convex body in the hyperbolic plane. We compare the known concepts with the new one and prove some results on bodies of constant width, constant diameter and given…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Ákos G. Horváth

The expected range of a sample of n+1 normally distributed variables is known to be related to the mean width of a regular n-simplex. We show that the expected maximum mu_n of a sample of n half-normally distributed variables is related to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Steven R. Finch

A polyhedron in a three-dimensional hyperbolic space is said to be generalized if finite, ideal and truncated vertices are admitted. In virtue of Belletti's theorem (2021) the exact upper bound for volumes of generalized hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Andrey Egorov , Andrei Vesnin

We obtain an upper bound to the packing density of regular tetrahedra. The bound is obtained by showing the existence, in any packing of regular tetrahedra, of a set of disjoint spheres centered on tetrahedron edges, so that each sphere is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-23 Simon Gravel , Veit Elser , Yoav Kallus

Spectrahedra are linear sections of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices that, as convex bodies, generalize the class of polyhedra. In this paper we investigate the problem of recognizing when a spectrahedron is polyhedral. We reprove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Avinash Bhardwaj , Philipp Rostalski , Raman Sanyal

Three configurations of two perpendicular disks in R^3 are examined, the first in which the disks share centers and the other two in which the disks touch at precisely one point. Volume, surface area and mean width calculations dominate the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Steven R. Finch

A ball polyhedron is a finite intersection of congruent balls in $\mathbb{R}^3$. These shapes arise in various contexts in discrete and convex geometry. We focus on Reuleaux polyhedra, the subclass of ball polyhedra whose centers and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ryan Hynd

In this note we study the maximal perimeter of a convex set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with respect to various classes of measures. Firstly, we show that for a probability measure $\mu$ on $ \mathbb{R}^n$, satisfying very mild assumptions, there…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Galyna V. Livshyts

The volume of a Meissner polyhedron is computed in terms of the lengths of its dual edges. This allows to reformulate the Meissner conjecture regarding constant width bodies with minimal volume as a series of explicit finite dimensional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Beniamin Bogosel

We consider triangle faced convex polyhedra inscribed in the unit sphere $S^2$ in ${\Bbb{R}}^3$. One way of measuring their deviation from regular polyhedra with triangular faces is to consider the quotient of the lengths of the longest and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-09 E. Makai,

For every hyperplane $H$ supporting a convex body $C$ in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^d$ we define the width of $C$ determined by $H$ as the distance between $H$ and a most distant ultraparallel hyperplane supporting $C$. We prove that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Marek Lassak

The average mixed volume of a random projection of $d$ convex bodies in $\mathbb R^n$ is bounded above in terms of a quermassintegral.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-22 Gregorio Malajovich

In this paper we deal with the problem to find the maximal volume polyhedra with a prescribed property and inscribed in the unit sphere. We generalize those inequality (called by \emph{icosahedron inequality}) of L. Fejes-T\'oth of which an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Ákos G. Horváth

In a given hypercube, draw grid lines parallel to the edges, and consider all hypercuboids (or hypercubes) whose edges are lying on the grid lines or the boundary. We find the limit of the value of the ratio of the arithmetic mean of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Takashi Hirotsu