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Rotors in triangles and tethrahedra

Metric Geometry 2016-10-21 v1

Abstract

A polytope PP is circumscribed about a convex body ΦRn\Phi\subset \mathbb{R}^n if ΦP\Phi\subset P and each facet of PP is contained in a support hyperplane of Φ\Phi. We say that a convex body ΦRn\Phi\subset \mathbb{R}^n is a rotor of a polytope PP if for each rotation ρ\rho of Rn\mathbb{R}^n there exist a translation τ\tau so that PP is circumscribed about τρΦ\tau\rho\Phi. In this paper we shall prove that if PP is a triangle, then there is a baricentric formula that describes the curvature of bdΦ\Phi at the contact points, {A1,A2,A3}\{A_1, A_2,A_3\}. We prove also that if ΦR3\Phi\subset \mathbb{R}^3 is a convex body which is a rotor in a tetrahedron TT and if Φ\Phi intersects the faces of TT at the points {x1,,x4}\{x_1, \dots, x_4\}, then the normal lines of Φ\Phi at the contact points with TT, {x1,,x4}\{x_1, \dots, x_4\} generically belong to one ruling of a quadric surface.

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@article{arxiv.1610.06232,
  title  = {Rotors in triangles and tethrahedra},
  author = {Luis Montejano and Javier Bracho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.06232},
  year   = {2016}
}
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