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Minkowski's Theorem asserts that every centered measure on the sphere which is not concentrated on a great subsphere is the surface area measure of some convex body, and, moreover, the surface area measure determines a convex body uniquely.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Galyna V. Livshyts

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem about spherical helicoidal (in particular, rotational) surfaces with prescribed mean or Gaussian curvature in terms of a continuous function depending on the distance to its axis. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jesús Castro-Infantes

We define local indices for projective umbilics and godrons (also called cusps of Gauss) on generic smooth surfaces in projective 3-space. By means of these indices, we provide formulas that relate the algebraic numbers of those…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Maxim Kazarian , Ricardo Uribe-Vargas

We suggest a set of morphological measures that we believe can help in quantifying the shapes of two-dimensional cosmological images such as galaxies, clusters, and superclusters of galaxies. The method employs non-parametric morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Nurur Rahman , Sergei F. Shandarin

As in a symmetric space of noncompact type, one can associate to an oriented geodesic segment in a Euclidean building a vector valued length in the Euclidean Weyl chamber; in addition to the metric length it contains information on the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Kapovich , Bernhard Leeb , John J. Millson

We introduce a family of symmetric convex bodies called generalized ellipsoids of degree $d$ (GE-$d$s), with ellipsoids corresponding to the case of $d=0$. Generalized ellipsoids (GEs) retain many geometric, algebraic, and algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Abraar Chaudhry , Cemil Dibek

Existence of nicely bounded sections of two symmetric convex bodies K and L implies that the intersection of random rotations of K and L is nicely bounded. For L = subspace, this main result immediately yields the unexpected phenomenon: "If…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Roman Vershynin

The Gauss image problem for convex bodies asks for the existence of a convex body that "links" two given measures on the unit sphere in a certain way. We treat here a corresponding question for pseudo-cones, that is, for unbounded closed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Rolf Schneider

We prove that, among weighted isotropic perimeters, only constant multiples of the Euclidean perimeter satisfy the monotonicity property on nested convex bodies. Although the analogous result fails for general weighted anisotropic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Giorgio Saracco , Giorgio Stefani

Plank problems concern the covering of convex bodies by planks in Euclidean space and are related to famous open problems in convex geometry. In this survey, we introduce plank problems and present surprising applications of plank theorems…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 William Verreault

We determine obstructedness or unobstructedness of (holomorphic) Poisson deformations of ruled surfaces over an elliptic curve.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Chunghoon Kim

At any point of a surface in the four-dimensional Euclidean space we consider the geometric configuration consisting of two figures: the tangent indicatrix, which is a conic in the tangent plane, and the normal curvature ellipse. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

The article presents simple analysis of cones which are used to generate a given conic curve by section by a plane. It was found that if the given curve is an ellipse, then the locus of vertexes of the cones is a hyperbola. The hyperbola…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Arkadiusz Kobiera

Consider a random set of points on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^d$, which can be either uniformly sampled or a Poisson point process. Its convex hull is a random inscribed polytope, whose boundary approximates the sphere. We focus on the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Arseniy Akopyan , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Anton Nikitenko

Convex geometries are closure systems satisfying the anti-exchange axiom. Every finite convex geometry can be embedded into a convex geometry of finitely many points in an n-dimensional space equipped with a convex hull operator, by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Kira Adaricheva , Madina Bolat

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

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

We extend the notion of illumination bodies to Riemannian spaces of constant curvature and to projective Finsler geometries. We prove that the derivative of their volume defines a notion of surface area for convex bodies in these settings,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Rotem Assouline , Florian Besau , Elisabeth M. Werner

Geometrical model for material Dirac wave field and for Maxwell electromagnetic field is suggested where above fields are considered as propagating regions of the space itself with distorted euclidean geometry. It is shown that equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Oleg A. Olkhov

This paper studies the configuration spaces of linkages whose underlying graph is a single cycle. Assume that the edge lengths are such that there are no configurations in which all the edges lie along a line. The main results are that,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-11-11 Don Shimamoto , Mary Wootters