Smooth convex Bodies with proportional projection functions
Metric Geometry
2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
For a convex body and , the function assigning to any -dimensional subspace of , the -dimensional volume of the orthogonal projection of to , is called the -th projection function of . Let be smooth convex bodies of class , and let be centrally symmetric. Excluding two exceptional cases, that of and , we prove that and are homothetic if they have two proportional projection functions. The special case when is a Euclidean ball provides an extension of Nakajima's classical three-dimensional characterization of spheres to higher dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.math/0408028,
title = {Smooth convex Bodies with proportional projection functions},
author = {Ralph Howard and Daniel Hug},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0408028},
year = {2007}
}
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17 pages