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This article is devoted to the study of classical and new results concerning equidistant sets, both from the topological and metric point of view. We start with a review of the most interesting known facts about these sets in the euclidean…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Mario Ponce , Patricio Santibáñez

Consider the image of a 2n-dimensional unit ball by an open symplectic embedding into the standard symplectic vector space of dimension 2n. Its 2k-dimensional shadow is its orthogonal projection into a complex subspace of real dimension 2k.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Alberto Abbondandolo , Rostislav Matveyev

We explore the characteristics of shadows for a general class of spherically symmetric, static spacetimes, which may arise in general relativity or in modified theories of gravity. The chosen line element involves a sum (with constant but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Md. Golam Mafuz , Rishank Diwan , Soumya Jana , Sayan Kar

We solve the classic albedo and Milne problems of plane-parallel illumination of an isotropically-scattering half-space when generalized to a Euclidean domain $\mathbb{R}^d$ for arbitrary $d \ge 1$. A continuous family of pseudo-problems…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Eugene d'Eon , Norman J. McCormick

We consider a class of overdetermined problems in rotationally symmetric spaces, which reduce to the classical Serrin's overdetermined problem in the case of the Euclidean space. We prove some general integral identities for rotationally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Giulio Ciraolo , Luigi Vezzoni

We study the shadow cast by a large gravitating sphere, similar to our Sun. For this, we consider the gravitational field produced by a static mass monopole within the first post-Newtonian approximation of the general theory of relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-15 Slava G. Turyshev , Viktor T. Toth

The paper is focused on the four-dimensional visualization of hypersurfaces represented by implicit equations without their parametrization. We describe a general method to find shadow boundaries in an arbitrary dimension and apply it in a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jakub Řada , Michal Zamboj

We study the electromagnetic (EM) field in the shadow cast by a large opaque sphere. For this, we consider the scattering of a high frequency monochromatic EM wave by the large sphere and develop a Mie theory that accounts for the presence…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-29 Slava G. Turyshev , Viktor T. Toth

We provide several characterizations of ring-shaped rotationally symmetric solutions to the Serrin problem in arbitrary dimensions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Virginia Agostiniani , Chiara Bernardini , Stefano Borghini , Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this article we prove a global result in the spirit of Basener's theorem regarding the relation between q-pseudoconvexity and q-holomorphic convexity: we prove that any smoothly bounded strictly q-pseudoconvex open subset of the complex…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-09-05 George-Ionut Ionita , Ovidiu Preda

Let a $R$-body be a closed set, complement of union of open balls of radius $R$ in the Euclidean space. Properties generalizing similar ones for convex sets are proved for the family of $R$-bodies; properties for the family of sets…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Marco Longinetti , Paolo Manselli , Adriana Venturi

Illuminating the surface of a convex body with parallel beams of light in a given direction generates a shadow region. We prove sharp regularity results for the boundary of this shadow in every direction of illumination. Moreover,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Emanuel Indrei , Levon Nurbekyan

We study the isoperimetric problem for Euclidean space endowed with a continuous density. In dimension one, we characterize isoperimetric regions for a unimodal density. In higher dimensions, we prove existence results and we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 César Rosales , Antonio Cañete , Vincent Bayle , Frank Morgan

Methodology is provided towards the solution of the minimum enclosing ball problem. This problem concerns the determination of the unique spherical surface of smallest radius enclosing a given bounded set in the d-dimensional Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Michael N. Vrahatis

Let $P$ and $Q$ be two convex polytopes both contained in the interior of an Euclidean ball $r\textbf{B}^{d}$. We prove that $P=Q$ provided that their sight cones from any point on the sphere $rS^{d-1}$ are congruent. We also prove an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Sergii Myroshnychenko

In this work, we introduce a family of rotating black bounces with an anisotropic fluid obtained by using a modified Newman-Janis algorithm. We analyze the main features of these spacetimes and obtain the geodesics for photons, which admit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Juan M. Paez

Spectrahedral shadows are projections of linear sections of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices. We characterize the polynomials that vanish on the boundaries of these convex sets when both the section and the projection are generic.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Rainer Sinn , Bernd Sturmfels

Hyperbolic space has proven to be well-suited for capturing hierarchical relations in data, such as trees and directed acyclic graphs. Prior work introduced the concept of entailment cones, which uses partial orders defined by nested cones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tao Yu , Toni J. B. Liu , Albert Tseng , Christopher De Sa

A natural oriented (2k+2)-chain in CP^{2k+1} with boundary twice RP^{2k+1}, its complex shade, is constructed. Via intersection numbers with the shade, a new invariant, the shade number of k-dimensional subvarieties with normal vector…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias Ekholm

The concept of an invisibility cloak is a fixture of science fiction, fantasy, and the collective imagination. However, a real device that could hide an object from sight in visible light from absolutely any viewpoint would be extremely…