Rotors in triangles and tethrahedra
Metric Geometry
2016-10-21 v1
Abstract
A polytope is circumscribed about a convex body if and each facet of is contained in a support hyperplane of . We say that a convex body is a rotor of a polytope if for each rotation of there exist a translation so that is circumscribed about . In this paper we shall prove that if is a triangle, then there is a baricentric formula that describes the curvature of bd at the contact points, . We prove also that if is a convex body which is a rotor in a tetrahedron and if intersects the faces of at the points , then the normal lines of at the contact points with , 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}
}