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The discrete Laplacian on Euclidean triangulated surfaces is a well-established notion. We introduce discrete Laplacians on spherical and hyperbolic triangulated surfaces. On the one hand, our definitions are close to the Euclidean one in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Ivan Izmestiev , Wai Yeung Lam

In this article we study the shape of a compact surface of constant mean curvature of Euclidean space whose boundary is contained in a round sphere. We consider the case that the boundary is prescribed or that the surface meets the sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-22 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

In this note we introduce the problem of illumination of convex bodies in spherical spaces and solve it for a large subfamily of convex bodies. We derive from it a combinatorial version of the classical illumination problem for convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi

We introduce a class of examples which provide an affine generalization of the nonholonomic problem of a convex body rolling without slipping on the plane. We investigate dynamical aspects of the system such as existence of first integrals,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 M. Costa Villegas , L. C. García-Naranjo

Three-dimensional central symmetric bodies different from spheres that can float in all orientations are considered. For relative density rho=1/2 there are solutions, if holes in the body are allowed. For rho different from 1/2 the body is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 Franz Wegner

Cone spherical surfaces are orientable Riemannian surfaces with constant curvature one and a finite set of conical singularities. A subset of these surfaces, referred to as dihedral surfaces, is characterized by their monodromy groups,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Sicheng Lu , Bin Xu

In this paper, we propose using the scattering surface area rather than the scattering cross section to characterize the scattering behavior of ellipsoidal rigid bodies. We examined the scattering behavior of ellipsoidal rigid bodies,…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-21 Youning Li

A new intrinsic volume metric is introduced for the class of convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^n$. As an application, an inequality is proved for the asymptotic best approximation of the Euclidean unit ball by arbitrarily positioned polytopes…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Florian Besau , Steven Hoehner

We study a long standing open problem by Ulam, which is whether the Euclidean ball is the unique body of uniform density which will float in equilibrium in any direction. We answer this problem in the class of origin symmetric n-dimensional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-15 D. I. Florentin , C. Schuett , E. M. Werner , N. Zhang

We investigate a duality relation between floating and illumination bodies. The definitions of these two bodies suggest that the polar of the floating body should be similar to the illumination body of the polar. We consider this question…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Olaf Mordhorst , Elisabeth M. Werner

The purpose of this publication is to derive and discuss equations of motion of affinely rigid (homogeneously deformable) body moving in Euclidean space of general dimension $n$. Our aim is to present some analytical methods and to discuss…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 J. J. Sławianowski , B. Gołubowska , E. E. Rożko , V. Kovalchuk , A. Martens , E. Gobcewicz

We consider a smooth Euclidean solid cone endowed with a smooth homogeneous density function used to weight Euclidean volume and hypersurface area. By assuming convexity of the cone and a curvature-dimension condition we prove that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-17 Antonio Cañete , César Rosales

Cauchy's surface area formula says that for a convex body $K$ in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space the mean value of the $(n-1)$-dimensional volumes of the orthogonal projections of $K$ to hyperplanes is a constant multiple of the surface…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Daniel Hug , Rolf Schneider

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 purpose of this paper is to study the reflections of a convex body. In particular, we are interested in orthogonal reflections of its sections that can be extended to reflections of the whole body. For this reason, we need to study the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Jorge L. Arocha , Javier Bracho , Luis Montejano

In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing the relative perimeter under a volume constraint in the interior of a conically bounded convex set, i.e., an unbounded convex body admitting an \emph{exterior} asymptotic cone. Results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Manuel Ritoré , Efstratios Vernadakis

This work studies the Fourier transform of the characteristic function of planar convex bodies averaged over affine transformations. We establish lower and upper bounds on the latter quantities in terms of the geometric properties of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Thomas Beretti

We establish a lower bound for the surface area of a closed, convex hypersurface in Euclidean space in terms of its displacement under continuous maps. As a result, a hypothesized lower bound for the volume of a Riemannian $n$-sphere,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 James Dibble , Joseph Hoisington

The purpose of this review it to present a renewed perspective of the problem of self-gravitating elastic bodies under spherical symmetry. It is also a companion to the papers [Phys. Rev. D105, 044025 (2022)], [Phys. Rev. D106, L041502…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-05 Artur Alho , José Natário , Paolo Pani , Guilherme Raposo

This paper introduces a natural definition for the volume of the unit ball in $n$-dimensional normed spaces $\mathbb{R}^n$. This definition preserves the Euclidean relation $P(B)/V(B)=n$ between the perimiter and the volume of the unit ball…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Gershon Wolansky