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We investigate the 2-center problem for arbitrary strictly convex, centrally symmetric curves instead of usual circles. In other words, we extend the 2-center problem (from the Euclidean plane) to strictly convex normed planes, since any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Pedro Martín , Horst Martini , Margarita Spirova

We obtain a new upper estimate on the Euclidean diameter of the intersection of the kernel of a random matrix with iid rows with a given convex body. The proof is based on a small-ball argument rather than on concentration and thus the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Shahar Mendelson

In this article is given a simple expression for the \textit{ center of mass} for a system of material points in a two-dimensional surface of constant negative Gaussian curvature. Using basic techniques of Geometry, an expression in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Pedro P. Ortega Palencia , José Guadalupe Reyes Victoria

A generalization of the notion of ellipsoids to curved Riemannian spaces is given and the possibility to use it in describing the shapes of rotating bodies in general relativity is examined. As an illustrative example, stationary,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jozsef Zsigrai

We state a general formula to compute the volume of the intersection of the regular $n$-simplex with some $k$-dimensional subspace. It is known that for central hyperplanes the one through the centroid containing $n-1$ vertices gives the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Hauke Dirksen

This article belongs to the area of geometric tomography, which is the study of geometric properties of solids based on data about their sections and projections. We describe a new direction in geometric tomography where different…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Apostolos Giannopoulos , Alexander Koldobsky , Artem Zvavitch

In this article, we study rectifying curves in arbitrary dimensional Euclidean space. A curve is said to be a rectifying curve if, in all points of the curve, the orthogonal complement of its normal vector contains a fixed point. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Stijn Cambie , Wendy Goemans , Iris Van den Bussche

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

While geometry with transcendental curves, like the Quadratrix of Hippias and the Spiral of Archimedes, played a significant role in our modern developments of geometry and algebra. The investigation has fallen off in the modern era despite…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Nicole Venner

We prove a randomized version of the generalized Urysohn inequality relating mean-width to the other intrinsic volumes. To do this, we introduce a stochastic approximation procedure that sees each convex body K as the limit of intersections…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Grigoris Paouris , Peter Pivovarov

It is proved that for a symmetric convex body K in R^n, if for some tau > 0, |K cap (x+tau K)| depends on ||x||_K only, then K is an ellipsoid. As a part of the proof, smoothness properties of convolution bodies ls are studied.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Mathieu Meyer , Shlomo Reisner , M. Schmuckenschlager

Asymptotic normality for the natural volume measure of random polytopes generated by random points distributed uniformly in a convex body in spherical or hyperbolic spaces is proved. Also the case of Hilbert geometries is treated and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Florian Besau , Christoph Thäle

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

Using combinatorial methods, we derive several formulas for the volume of convex bodies obtained by intersecting a unit hypercube with a halfspace, or with a hyperplane of codimension 1, or with a flat defined by two parallel hyperplanes.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-12 Jean-Luc Marichal , Michael J. Mossinghoff

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

This chapter reviews some past and recent developments in shape comparison and analysis of curves based on the computation of intrinsic Riemannian metrics on the space of curves modulo shape-preserving transformations. We summarize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Eric Klassen , Alice Le Brigant

The approximability of a convex body is a number which measures the difficulty to approximate that body by polytopes. We prove that twice the approximability is equal to the volume entropy for a Hilbert geometry in dimension two end three…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Constantin Vernicos

The boundary of the convex hull of a compact algebraic curve in real 3-space defines a real algebraic surface. For general curves, that boundary surface is reducible, consisting of tritangent planes and a scroll of stationary bisecants. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-19 Kristian Ranestad , Bernd Sturmfels

We present a survey article about the geometry of convex bodies on the $d$-dimensional sphere $S^d$. We concentrate on the results based on the notion of the width of a convex body $C \subset S^d$ determined by a supporting hemisphere of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Marek Lassak

The main goal of this paper is to present a series of inequalities connecting the surface area measure of a convex body and surface area measure of its projections and sections. We present a solution of a question from S. Campi, P.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Alexander Koldobsky , Christos Saroglou , Artem Zvavitch