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Convexity and convex functions play an important role in theoretical physics. To initiate a study of the possible uses of convex functions in General Relativity, we discuss the consequences of a spacetime $(M,g_{\mu \nu})$ or an initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-07 Gary W. Gibbons , Akihiro Ishibashi

Convexity and convex functions play an important role in theoretical physics. To initiate a study of the possible uses of convex functions in General Relativity, we discuss the consequences of a spacetime $(M,g_{\mu \nu})$ or an initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Gary W. Gibbons , Akihiro Ishibashi

Typically, when we are given the section (or projection) function of a convex body, it means that in each direction we know the size of the central section (or projection) perpendicular to this direction. Suppose now that we can only get…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Jaegil Kim , Vladyslav Yaskin , Artem Zvavitch

We study the convex-hull problem in a probabilistic setting, motivated by the need to handle data uncertainty inherent in many applications, including sensor databases, location-based services and computer vision. In our framework, the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Sariel Har-Peled , Subhash Suri , Hakan Yildiz , Wuzhou Zhang

We study the local and global versions of the convexity, which is closely related to the problem of extending a convex function on a non-convex domain to a convex function on the convex hull of the domain and beyond the convex hull. We also…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-08-08 Min Yan

In this paper, we extend and generalize several previous works on maximal-volume positions of convex bodies. First, we analyze the maximal positive-definite image of one convex body inside another, and the resulting decomposition of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Eli Putterman

We introduce notions of concavity for functions on balanced polyhedral spaces, and we show that concave functions on such spaces satisfy several strong continuity properties.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Ana María Botero , José Ignacio Burgos Gil , Martín Sombra

The intrinsic volumes are measures of the content of a convex body. This paper uses probabilistic and information-theoretic methods to study the sequence of intrinsic volumes of a convex body. The main result states that the intrinsic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Martin Lotz , Michael B. McCoy , Ivan Nourdin , Giovanni Peccati , Joel A. Tropp

We discuss basic properties of several different width functions in the $n$-dimensional hyperbolic space such as continuity, and we also define a new hyperbolic width as the extension of Leichtweiss' width function. Then we prove a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Károly J. Böröczky , András Csépai , Ádám Sagmeister

The covariogram g_K(x) of a convex body K \subseteq E^d is the function which associates to each x \in E^d the volume of the intersection of K with K+x. Matheron asked whether g_K determines K, up to translations and reflections in a point.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gennadiy Averkov , Gabriele Bianchi

Estimating the volume of a convex body is a canonical problem in theoretical computer science. Its study has led to major advances in randomized algorithms, Markov chain theory, and computational geometry. In particular, determining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Arjan Cornelissen , Simon Apers , Sander Gribling

We introduce floating bodies for convex, not necessarily bounded subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$. This allows us to define floating functions for convex and log concave functions and log concave measures. We establish the asymptotic behavior of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Ben Li , Carsten Schuett , Elisabeth M. Werner

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

Writing an uncomplicated, robust, and scalable three-dimensional convex hull algorithm is challenging and problematic. This includes, coplanar and collinear issues, numerical accuracy, performance, and complexity trade-offs. While there are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ben Kenwright

V. Arnold's problem 1987-14 asks whether there exist smooth hypersurfaces in $R^N$ (other than the conics in odd-dimensional spaces) for which the volume of the segment cut by any hyperplane from the body bounded by such a hypersurface is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-31 V. A. Vassiliev

The concept of illumination bodies studied in convex geometry is used to amend the halfspace depth for multivariate data. The proposed notion of illumination enables finer resolution of the sample points, naturally breaks ties in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Stanislav Nagy , Jiří Dvořák

We prove two-sided bounds on the expected values of several geometric functionals of the convex hull of Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and their inverse processes. This extends some recent results of McRedmond and Xu (2017),…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Hugo Panzo , Evan Socher

Covering numbers of convex bodies based on homothetical copies and related illumination numbers are well-known in combinatorial geometry and, for example, related to Hadwiger's famous covering problem. Similar numbers can be defined by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-06 Horst Martini , Christian Richter , Margarita Spirova

The equichordal point problem is a classical question in geometry, asking whether there exist multiple equichordal points within a single convex body. An equichordal point is defined as a point through which all chords of the convex body…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Leo Jang , Donghan Kim

Weighted cone-volume functionals are introduced for the convex polytopes in $\mathbb{R}^n$. For these functionals, geometric inequalities are proved and the equality conditions are characterized. A variety of corollaries are derived,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Steven Hoehner , Jeff Ledford