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Affine hemispheres of elliptic type

Differential Geometry 2015-12-15 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We find that for any n-dimensional, compact, convex subset K of R^{n+1} there is an affinely-spherical hypersurface M in R^{n+1} with center at the relative interior of K, such that the disjoint union of M and K is the boundary of an (n+1)-dimensional, compact, convex set. This so-called affine hemisphere M is uniquely determined by K up to affine transformations, it is of elliptic type, is associated with K in an affinely-invariant manner, and it is centered at the Santalo point of K.

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@article{arxiv.1508.00474,
  title  = {Affine hemispheres of elliptic type},
  author = {Bo'az Klartag},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00474},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

39 pages, minor revision

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