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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

We investigate a natural analog to Lutwak's $p$-affine surface area in $d$-dimensional spherical, hyperbolic and de Sitter space. In particular, we show that these curvature measures appear naturally as the volume derivative of floating…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Florian Besau , Elisabeth M. Werner

The Gauss curvature measure of a pointed Euclidean convex body is a measure on the unit sphere which extends the notion of Gauss curvature to non-smooth bodies. Alexandrov's problem consists in finding a convex body with given curvature…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Jérôme Bertrand , Philippe Castillon

In this work we prove the following result: Let $K$ be a strictly convex body in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n, n\geq 3$, and let $L$ be a hypersurface, which is the image of an embedding of the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$, such that $K$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 E. Morales-Amaya , J. Jerónimo-Castro , D. J. Verdusco-Hernández

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

A new slender-body theory for viscous flow, based on the concepts of dimensional reduction and hyperviscous regularization, is presented. The geometry of flat, elongated, or point-like rigid bodies immersed in a viscous fluid is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Giulio G. Giusteri , Eliot Fried

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

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

We show that many well-known transforms in convex geometry (in particular, centroid body, convex floating body, and Ulam floating body) are special instances of a general construction, relying on applying sublinear expectations to random…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Ilya Molchanov , Riccardo Turin

The intrinsic volumes of a convex body are fundamental invariants that capture information about the average volume of the projection of the convex body onto a random subspace of fixed dimension. The intrinsic volumes also play a central…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Martin Lotz , Joel A. Tropp

We consider a generalization of the hyperplane problem to arbitrary measures in place of volume and to sections of lower dimensions. We prove this generalization for unconditional convex bodies and for duals of bodies with bounded volume…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Alexander Koldobsky

Given a sphere of any radius $r$ in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space, we study the coverings of this sphere with solid spheres of radius one. Our goal is to design a covering of the lowest covering density, which defines the average…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Ilya Dumer

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

This paper presents necessary, sufficient, and equivalent conditions for the spherical convexity of non-homogeneous quadratic functions. In addition to motivating this study and identifying useful criteria for determining whether such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 R. Bolton , S. Z. Németh

We present a method to obtain upper bounds on covering numbers. As applications of this method, we reprove and generalize results of Rogers on economically covering Euclidean $n$-space with translates of a convex body, or more generally,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Márton Naszódi

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

In light of the log-Brunn-Minkowski conjecture, various attempts have been made to define the geometric mean of convex bodies. Many of these constructions are fairly complex and/or fail to satisfy some natural properties one would expect of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-02 René Brandenberg , Florian Grundbacher

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 the sphere and the hyperbolic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-19 J. Jerónimo-Castro , E. Makai

We study relations of some classes of $k$-convex, $k$-visible bodies in Euclidean spaces. We introduce and study \textrm{circular projections} in normed linear spaces and classes of bodies related with families of such maps, in particular,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-31 V. Golubyatnikov V. Rovenski

Barthe, Schechtman and Schmuckenschl\"ager proved that the cube maximizes the mean width of symmetric convex bodies whose John ellipsoid (maximal volume ellipsoid contained in the body) is the Euclidean unit ball, and the regular…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Károly J. Böröczky , Ferenc Fodor , Daniel Hug