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Kinematic formulas for sets defined by differences of convex functions

Differential Geometry 2015-10-14 v4

Abstract

Two of the authors have defined the class WDC(M) WDC(M) as the class of all subsets of a smooth manifold MM that may be expressed in local coordinates as certain sublevel sets of DC (differences of convex) functions. If MM is Riemanian and GG is a group of isometries acting transitively on the sphere bundle SMSM, we define the invariant curvature measures of compact \WDC~ subsets of MM, and show that pairs of such subsets are subject to the array of kinematic formulas known to apply to smoother sets. Restricting to the case (M,G)=(Rd,SO(d))(M, G) = (\mathbb R^d, \overline{SO(d)}), this extends and subsumes Federer's theory of sets with positive reach in an essential way. The key technical point is equivalent to a sharpening of a classical theorem of Ewald, Larman, and Rogers characterizing the dimension of the set of directions of line segments lying in the boundary of a given convex body.

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@article{arxiv.1505.03388,
  title  = {Kinematic formulas for sets defined by differences of convex functions},
  author = {Joseph H. G. Fu and Dusan Pokorny and Jan Rataj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03388},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

26 pages. Further minor revisions

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