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We present some relationships between the diameter, width and thickness of a reduced convex body on the $d$-dimensional sphere. We apply the obtained properties to recognize if a Wulff shape in the Euclidean $d$-space is self-dual.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Marek Lassak

Extending Blaschke and Lebesgue's classical result in the Euclidean plane, it has been recently proved in spherical and the hyperbolic cases, as well, that Reuleaux triangles have the minimal area among convex domains of constant width $D$.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Karoly J. Boroczky , Adam Sagmeister

High proved the following theorem. If the intersections of any two congruent copies of a plane convex body are centrally symmetric, then this body is a circle. In our paper we extend the theorem of High to spherical and hyperbolic planes.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-19 J. Jerónimo-Castro , E. Makai

For any Wulff shape, its dual Wulff shape is naturally defined. A self-dual Wulff shape is a Wulff shape equaling its dual Wulff shape exactly. In this paper, it is shown that a Wulff shape is self-dual if and only if the spherical convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-18 Huhe Han , Takashi Nishimura

The spherical centroid body of a centrally-symmetric convex body in the Euclidean unit sphere is introduced. Two alternative definitions - one geometric, the other probabilistic in nature - are given and shown to lead to the same objects.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Florian Besau , Thomas Hack , Peter Pivovarov , Franz E. Schuster

High proved the following theorem. If the intersections of any two congruent copies of a plane convex body are centrally symmetric, then this body is a circle. In our paper we extend the theorem of High to spherical, Euclidean and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-05 J. Jerónimo-Castro , E. Makai,

For a given $\lambda >0$, a convex body in $\mathbb R^n$ is $\lambda$-convex if it is the intersection of (finitely or infinitely many) balls of radius $1/\lambda$. In this note, we show that among all $\lambda$-convex bodies in $\mathbb…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Kostiantyn Drach , Kateryna Tatarko

Let $C\subset {\mathbb R}^n$ be a convex body. We introduce two notions of convexity associated to C. A set $K$ is $C$-ball convex if it is the intersection of translates of $C$, or it is either $\emptyset$, or ${\mathbb R}^n$. The $C$-ball…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Zsolt Lángi , Márton Naszódi , István Talata

The manuscript provides formulas for the volume of a body defined by the intersection of a solid cone and a solid sphere as a function of the sphere radius, of the distance between cone apex and sphere center, and of the cone aperture…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Richard J. Mathar

A pseudo-cone in ${\mathbb R}^n$ is a nonempty closed convex set $K$ not containing the origin and such that $\lambda K \subseteq K$ for all $\lambda\ge 1$. It is called a $C$-pseudo-cone if $C$ is its recession cone, where $C$ is a pointed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Rolf Schneider

In this paper we introduce the Constant Width Measure Set, which measures the constant width property of an oval, i.e. the planar simple closed strictly convex curve. We study its geometrical properties. We find the exact relation between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-16 M. Zwierzyński

The study of bodies of constant width is a classical subject in convex geometry, with the 3-dimensional Meissner bodies being canonical examples. This paper presents a novel geometric construction of a body of constant width in $\mathbb…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Marcela G. Mercado-Flores , Miguel Raggi , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado

Let $M$ be a convex body and let $K$ be a closed convex surface $K$ both contained in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^3$. What can we say about $M$ if $K$ encloses $M$ and if from all the points in $K$ the body $M$ looks the same? In this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Efren Morales Amaya

We prove that if the density of the cone-volume measure of a smooth, strictly convex body with respect to the spherical Lebesgue measure is nearly constant, then a homothetic copy of the body is close to the unit ball in the $L^2$-distance.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Yingxiang Hu , Mohammad N. Ivaki

Lipschitz constants for the width and diameter functions of a convex body in $\mathbb R^n$ are found in terms of its diameter and thickness (maximum and minimum of both functions). Also, a dual approach to thickness is proposed.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Oleg Mushkarov , Nikolai Nikolov , Pascal J. Thomas

One of the most important problems in Geometric Tomography is to establish properties of a given convex body if we know some properties over its sections or its projections. There are many interesting and deep results that provide…

Let $K$ and $L$ be two convex bodies in ${\mathbb R^4}$, such that their projections onto all $3$-dimensional subspaces are directly congruent. We prove that if the set of diameters of the bodies satisfy an additional condition and some…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-30 M. Angeles Alfonseca , Michelle Cordier , Dmitry Ryabogin

In this paper, we show that if $L_p$ Gaussian surface area measure is proportional to the spherical Lebesgue measure, then the corresponding convex body has to be a centered disk when $p\in[0,1)$. Moreover, we investigate $C^0$ estimate of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Weiru Liu

If the n-dimensional unit sphere is covered by finitely many spherically convex bodies, then the sum of the inradii of these bodies is at least {\pi}. This bound is sharp, and the equality case is characterized.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Karoly Bezdek , Rolf Schneider

The smallest hyperconvex metric space containing a given metric space X is called the tight span of X. It is known that tight spans have many nice geometric and topological properties, and they are gradually becoming a target of research of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Sunhyuk Lim , Facundo Memoli , Zhengchao Wan , Qingsong Wang , Ling Zhou