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Denote by $S^2$ the two-dimensional sphere. A spherical convex body on $S^2$ which does not properly contain a spherical convex body of the same spherical thickness is called a reduced body. We give three characterizations of reducedness of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Marek Lassak

This paper gives a detailed derivation of the surface of a tri-axial ellipsoid. The general result is in terms of the elliptic integrals of the first and second kind. It is in checked for all special cases included and the corresponding…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-04-28 Daniel Poelaert , Joachim Schniewind , Frank Janssens

It is proved that every convex body in the plane has a point such that the union of the body and its image under reflection in the point is convex. If the body is not centrally symmetric, then it has, in fact, three affinely independent…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-03 Rolf Schneider

A rational elliptic surface with section is a smooth, rational, complex, projective surface $\mathcal{X}$ that admits a relatively minimal fibration $f: \mathcal{X}\longrightarrow \bbP^1$ such that its general fibre is a smooth irreducible…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Ciro Ciliberto , Antonella Grassi , Rick Miranda , Alessandro Verra , Aline Zanardini

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

Let $K\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a convex body, $n\geq 3$. We say that $K$ satisfies the Barker-Larman condition if there exists a ball $B$ in the interior of $K$ such that for every suppor hyperplane $\Pi$ of $B$, the section $\Pi \cap K$ is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-21 E. Morales-Amaya

We show that smooth and strongly convex bodies in the symplectic $\mathbb R^{2n}$ for $n>1$ with all characteristics planar, or all outer billiard trajectories planar are affine symplectic images of balls.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Roman Karasev , Anastasiia Sharipova

In this paper, extending the work of Gal'perin (Comm. Math. Phys. 154: 63-84, 1993), we investigate generalizations of the concepts of centroids and static equilibrium points of a convex body in spherical, hyperbolic and normed spaces. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Z. Lángi , S. Wang

Polytopes are the basic finite data structures for convex sets: they appear as feasible regions in linear optimization, as geometric summaries in algorithms, and as random objects in stochastic geometry. A natural geometric question is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Steven Hoehner

We show that there exists a $C^2$ open dense set of convex bodies with smooth boundary whose billiard map exhibits a non-trivial hyperbolic basic set. As a consequence billiards in generic convex bodies have positive topological entropy and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Mário Bessa , Gianluigi Del Magno , João Lopes Dias , José Pedro Gaivão , Maria Joana Torres

Similarly to the classic notion in $E^d$, a subset of a positive diameter below $\frac{\pi}{2}$ of a hemisphere of the sphere $S^d$ is called complete, provided adding any extra point increases its diameter. Complete sets are convex bodies…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Marek Lassak

Let $\Sigma\subset \mathbb{R}^{2n}$ with $n\geq2$ be any $C^2$ compact convex hypersurface. The stability of closed characteristics has attracted considerable attention in related research fields. A long-standing conjecture states that all…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Lu Liu , Yuwei Ou

We prove that elliptic tubes over properly convex domains of the real projective space are C-convex and complete Kobayashi-hyperbolic. We also study a natural construction of complexification of convex real projective manifolds.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Daniele Alessandrini , Alberto Saracco

We introduce the mixed convolution bodies of two convex symmetric bodies. We prove that if the boundary of a body $K$ is smooth enough then as $\delta$ tends to $1$ the $\delta$--$M^*$--convolution body of $K$ with itself tends to a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Antonis Tsolomitis

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

Let K be a finite field. We know that a half of elements of K* is a square. So it is natural to ask how many of them appear as x-coordinate of points on an elliptic curve over K. We consider a specific class of elliptic curves over finite…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Yu Tsumura

A convex geometry is a closure system satisfying the anti-exchange property. This paper, following the work of K. Adaricheva and M. Bolat (2016) and the Polymath REU 2020 team, continues to investigate representations of convex geometries…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Kira Adaricheva , Evan Daisy , Ayush Garg , Zachary King , Grace Ma , Michelle Olson , Cat Raanes , James Thompson

In this paper, we consider the elliptic relative equilibria of four-body problem with two infinitesimal masses. The most interesting case is when the two small masses tend to the same Lagrangian point $L_4$ (or $L_5$). In \cite{Xia}, Z. Xia…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Qinglong Zhou

We prove that if a convex set in Cn contains two inscribed complex ellipsoid of maximal volume then one is a translate of the other. On the other hand, the circumscribed complex elipsoid of minimal volume is unique. As application we prove…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Jorge L. Arocha , Javier Bracho , Luis Montejano

The indicatrix or curvature ellipse and the characteristic curve of a surface in $\mathbf R^4$ are presented, as well as the projective duality connecting them. The characterisation of points in the surfaces as elliptic, parabolic and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-09 J. Basto-Gonçalves