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Spherical centroid bodies

Metric Geometry 2019-02-28 v1

Abstract

The spherical centroid body of a centrally-symmetric convex body in the Euclidean unit sphere is introduced. Two alternative definitions - one geometric, the other probabilistic in nature - are given and shown to lead to the same objects. The geometric approach is then used to establish a number of basic properties of spherical centroid bodies, while the probabilistic approach inspires the proof of a spherical analogue of the classical polar Busemann-Petty centroid inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1902.10614,
  title  = {Spherical centroid bodies},
  author = {Florian Besau and Thomas Hack and Peter Pivovarov and Franz E. Schuster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.10614},
  year   = {2019}
}
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