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We prove entropy rigidity for finite volume strictly convex projective manifolds in dimensions $\geq 3$, generalizing the work of arXiv:1708.03983 to the finite volume setting. The rigidity theorem uses the techniques of Besson, Courtois,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Harrison Bray , David Constantine

We give a variational proof of the existence and uniqueness of a convex cap with the given upper boundary. The proof uses the concavity of the total scalar curvature functional on the space of generalized convex caps. As a byproduct, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ivan Izmestiev

This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive sectional curvatures at every point. Under these conditions,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Magnitude is a numerical invariant of compact metric spaces, originally inspired by category theory and now known to be related to myriad other geometric quantities. Generalizing earlier results in $\ell_1^n$ and Euclidean space, we prove…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Mark W. Meckes

An ellipsoid is the image of a ball under an affine transformation. If this affine transformation is over the complex numbers, we refer to it as a complex ellipsoid. Characterizations of real ellipsoids have received much attention over the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Jorge Luis Arocha , Javier Bracho , Luis Montejano

In this work we discuss a conjecture of Viterbo relating the symplectic capacity of a convex body and its volume. The conjecture states that among all 2n-dimensional convex bodies with a given volume the euclidean ball has maximal…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Yaron Ostrover

For a convex lattice polytope $P\subset \mathbb R^d$ of dimension $d$ with vertices in $\mathbb Z^d$, denote by $L(P)$ its discrete volume which is defined as the number of integer points inside $P$. The classical result due to Ehrhart says…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Mariia Dospolova

Many classical problems in convex geometry can be cast as optimization problems under certain containment conditions. The arguably best-understood example is volume-maximization of convex bodies contained in other convex bodies, where the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Florian Grundbacher , Tomasz Kobos

In this paper, we apply a capillary John ellipsoid theorem for capillary convex bodies in the Euclidean half-space $\overline{\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{+}}$. This theorem yields a non-collapsing estimate for capillary hypersurfaces, which provides…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Jinrong Hu , Bo Yang

We give two characterizations of cones over ellipsoids in real normed vector spaces. Let $C$ be a closed convex cone with nonempty interior such that $C$ has a bounded section of codimension $1$. We show that $C$ is a cone over an ellipsoid…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Farhad Jafari , Tyrrell B. McAllister

An infinitely smooth convex body in $\mathbb R^n$ is called polynomially integrable of degree $N$ if its parallel section functions are polynomials of degree $N$. We prove that the only smooth convex bodies with this property in odd…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Alexander Koldobsky , Alexander Merkurjev , Vladyslav Yaskin

We establish estimates for the asymptotic best approximation of the Euclidean unit ball by polytopes under a notion of distance induced by the intrinsic volumes. We also introduce a notion of distance between convex bodies that is induced…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Florian Besau , Steven Hoehner , Gil Kur

A subset of the d-dimensional Euclidean space having nonempty interior is called a spindle convex body if it is the intersection of (finitely or infinitely many) congruent d-dimensional closed balls. The spindle convex body is called a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Karoly Bezdek

We prove that for every convex body $K$ with the center of mass at the origin and every $\varepsilon\in \left(0,\frac{1}{2}\right)$, there exists a convex polytope $P$ with at most $e^{O(d)}\varepsilon^{-\frac{d-1}{2}}$ vertices such that…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Márton Naszódi , Fedor Nazarov , Dmitry Ryabogin

The dodecahedral conjecture states that the volume of the Voronoi polyhedron of a sphere in a packing of equal spheres is at least the volume of a regular dodecahedron with inradius 1. The authors prove the conjecture following the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-08-09 Thomas C. Hales , Sean McLaughlin

Abstract In this paper, we study affine bodies of revolution. This will allow us to prove that a convex body all whose orthogonal $n$-projections are affinely equivalent is an ellipsoid, provided $n\equiv 0,1, 2$ mod $4$, $n>1$ with the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Luis Montejano

We extend the notion of John's ellipsoid to the setting of integrable log-concave functions. This will allow us to define the integral ratio of a log-concave function, which will extend the notion of volume ratio, and we will find the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-23 David Alonso-Gutiérrez , Bernardo González Merino , Carlos Hugo Jiménez , Rafael Villa

We introduce the notion of Loewner (ellipsoid) function for a log concave function and show that it is an extension of the Loewner ellipsoid for convex bodies. We investigate its duality relation to the recently defined John (ellipsoid)…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Ben Li , Carsten Schuett , Elisabeth M. Werner

This paper is devoted to measures of symmetry based on distance between centroid and one of the centers of John and Lowner ellipsoid. The author proves the accuracy of the derived upper bounds for the considered measures of symmetry.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Evgenii Safronenko

We prove that Alexandrov's conjecture relating the area and diameter of a convex surface holds for the surface of a general ellipsoid. This is a direct consequence of a more general result which estimates the deviation from the optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Pedro Freitas , David Krejcirik