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The purpose of this paper is to describe a new $3$-dimensional family of bodies of constant width that we have called peabodies, obtained from the Reuleaux tetrahedron by replacing a small neighborhood of all six edges with sections of an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Isaac Arelio , Luis Montejano , Deborah Oliveros

We define floating bodies in the class of $n$-dimensional ball-convex bodies. A right derivative of volume of these floating bodies leads to a surface area measure for ball-convex bodies which we call relative affine surface area. We show…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Carsten Schuett , Elisabeth M Werner , Diliya Yalikun

Complementing our previous results, we give a classification of all isometries (not necessarily surjective) of the metric space consisting of ball-bodies, endowed with the Hausdorff metric. "Ball bodies" are convex bodies which are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Arnon Chor , Dan Florentin

Makeev conjectured that every constant-width body is inscribed in the dual difference body of a regular simplex. We prove that homologically, there are an odd number of such circumscribing bodies in dimension 3, and therefore geometrically…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Greg Kuperberg

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 consider the family of constant width bodies in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which is convex under Minkowski addition. Extreme shapes cannot be expressed as a nontrivial convex combination of other constant width bodies. We show that each Meissner…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Ryan Hynd

We define new surface area measures for ball-convex bodies which we call $L_p$ relative surface areas. We show that those are rigid motion invariant valuations. We establish inequalities for these quantities and prove a monotonicity…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Elisabeth M. Werner , Diliya Yalikun

Let $\mu$ be a probability measure on a separable Banach space $X$. A subset $U\subset X$ is $\mu$-continuous if $\mu(\partial U)=0$. In the paper the $\mu$-continuity and uniform $\mu$-continuity of convex bodies in $X$, especially of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Anatolij Plichko

We show that in all dimensions d>2, there exists an asymmetric convex body of revolution all of whose maximal hyperplane sections have the same volume. This gives the negative answer to the question posed by V. Klee in 1969.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Fedor Nazarov , Dmitry Ryabogin , Artem Zvavitch

In this paper we study the class of so called `ball-bodies' in ${\mathbb R}^n$, given by intersections of translates of Euclidean unit balls (or, equivalently, summand of the Euclidean ball). We study the class along with the natural…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Dan I. Florentin

It was conjectured by Levi, Hadwiger, Gohberg and Markus that the boundary of any convex body in ${\mathbb R}^n$ can be illuminated by at most $2^n$ light sources, and, moreover, $2^n-1$ light sources suffice unless the body is a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Galyna Livshyts , Konstantin Tikhomirov

We present an alternative proof of the following fact: the hyperspace of compact closed subsets of constant width in $\mathbb R^n$ is a contractible Hilbert cube manifold. The proof also works for certain subspaces of compact convex sets of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. E. Bazylevych , M. M. Zarichnyi

In 1959, Klee proved that a convex body $K$ is a polyhedron if and only if all of its projections are polygons. In this paper, a new proof of this theorem is given for convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^3$.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-06 John J. Zanazzi

The study of bodies of constant width is a classical subject in convex geometry, with the 3-dimensional Meissner bodies being canonical examples. This paper presents a novel geometric construction of a body of constant width in $\mathbb…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Marcela G. Mercado-Flores , Miguel Raggi , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado

Let $E\subset \mathbb R^n$, $n\ge 2$, be a set of finite perimeter with $|E|=|B|$, where $B$ denotes the unit ball. When $n=2$, since convexification decreases perimeter (in the class of open connected sets), it is easy to prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Alessio Figalli , Yi Ru-Ya Zhang

We prove that if the density of the cone-volume measure of a smooth, strictly convex body with respect to the spherical Lebesgue measure is nearly constant, then a homothetic copy of the body is close to the unit ball in the $L^2$-distance.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Yingxiang Hu , Mohammad N. Ivaki

It is known that the $L_p$-curvature of a smooth, strictly convex body in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ is constant only for origin-centred balls when $1\neq p>-n$, and only for balls when $p=1$. If $p=-n$, then the $L_{-n}$-curvature is constant only…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Mohammad N. Ivaki

The purpose of this paper is to study convex bodies $C$ for which there exists no convex body $C^\prime\subsetneq C$ of the same lattice width. Such bodies shall be called ``lattice reduced'', and they occur naturally in the study of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Giulia Codenotti , Ansgar Freyer

Similarly to the classic notion in $E^d$, a subset of a positive diameter below $\frac{\pi}{2}$ of a hemisphere of the sphere $S^d$ is called complete, provided adding any extra point increases its diameter. Complete sets are convex bodies…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Marek Lassak

We settle the Hadwiger-Boltyanski Illumination Conjecture for all 1-unconditional convex bodies in ${\mathbb R}^3$ and in ${\mathbb R}^4$. Moreover, we settle the conjecture for those higher-dimensional 1-unconditional convex bodies which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Wen Rui Sun , Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou