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Cauchy's surface area formula says that for a convex body $K$ in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space the mean value of the $(n-1)$-dimensional volumes of the orthogonal projections of $K$ to hyperplanes is a constant multiple of the surface…

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The purpose of this publication is to derive and discuss equations of motion of affinely rigid (homogeneously deformable) body moving in Euclidean space of general dimension $n$. Our aim is to present some analytical methods and to discuss…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 J. J. Sławianowski , B. Gołubowska , E. E. Rożko , V. Kovalchuk , A. Martens , E. Gobcewicz

The illumination conjecture asserts that any convex body in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space can be illuminated by at most $2^n$ external light sources or parallel beams of light. Despite recent progress on the illumination conjecture, it…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Andrii Arman , Jaskaran Singh Kaire , Andriy Prymak

We introduce f-divergence, a concept from information theory and statistics, for convex bodies in R^n. We prove that f-divergences are SL(n) invariant valuations and we establish an affine isoperimetric inequality for these quantities. We…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-16 Elisabeth M. Werner

We establish central limit theorems for natural volumes of random inscribed polytopes in projective Riemannian or Finsler geometries. In addition, normal approximation of dual volumes and the mean width of random polyhedral sets are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Florian Besau , Daniel Rosen , Christoph Thäle

We extend the notion of Ulam floating sets from convex bodies to Ulam floating functions. We use the Ulam floating functions to derive a new variational formula for the affine surface area of log-concave functions.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Chunyan Liu , Elisabeth M. Werner , Deping Ye , Ning Zhang

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 begin by studying the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of the semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere in n-dimensions and use this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

We introduce a new volume definition on normed vector spaces. We show that the induced $k$-area functionals are convex for all $k$. In the particular case $k=2$, our theorem implies that Busemann's 2-volume density is convex, which was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Andreas Bernig

In this note we introduce a natural Finsler structure on convex surfaces, referred to as the projective Finsler structure, which is dual in a sense to the obvious inclusion of a convex surface in a normed space. It has an associated…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Dmitry Faifman

We formulate several conjectures on mean convex domains in the Euclidean spaces, as well as in more general spaces with lower bonds on their scalar curvatures, and prove a few theorems motivating these conjectures.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Misha Gromov

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

Motivated by the relative differential geometry, where the Euclidean normal vector of hypersurfaces is generalized by a relative normalization, we introduce anisotropic area measures of convex bodies, constructed with respect to a gauge…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Rolf Schneider

We study surfaces in Euclidean space constructed by the sum of two curves or that are graphs of the product of two functions. We consider the problem to determine all these surfaces with constant Gauss curvature. We extend the results to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Rafael López , Marilena Moruz

We prove two weighted geometric inequalities that hold for strictly mean convex and star-shaped hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. The first one involves the weighted area and the area of the hypersurface and also the volume of the region…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Frederico Girão , Diego Rodrigues

We introduce decorated piecewise hyperbolic and spherical surfaces and discuss their discrete conformal equivalence. A decoration is a choice of circle about each vertex of the surface. Our decorated surfaces are closely related to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Alexander I. Bobenko , Carl O. R. Lutz

Magnitude is an isometric invariant of metric spaces inspired by category theory. Recent work has shown that the asymptotic behavior under rescaling of the magnitude of subsets of Euclidean space is closely related to intrinsic volumes.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Mark W. Meckes

It is proved that if $C$ is a convex body in ${\Bbb R}^n$ then $C$ has an affine image $\widetilde C$ (of non-zero volume) so that if $P$ is any 1-codimensional orthogonal projection, $$|P\widetilde C| \ge |\widetilde C|^{n-1\over n}.$$ It…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Keith Ball

We investigate weighted floating bodies of polytopes. We show that the weighted volume depends on the complete flags of the polytope. This connection is obtained by introducing flag simplices, which translate between the metric and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Florian Besau , Carsten Schütt , Elisabeth M. Werner

A theorem of Wiegerinck asserts that the Bergman space of an open subset of the complex numbers is either infinite-dimensional or trivial. Recently, this has been generalized to holomorphic vector bundles over the projective line by the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-03-20 László Koltai , Alexander A. Kubasch , Róbert Szőke