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Star bodies with completely symmetric sections

Metric Geometry 2016-11-30 v1

Abstract

We say that a star body KK is completely symmetric if it has centroid at the origin and its symmetry group GG forces any ellipsoid whose symmetry group contains GG, to be a ball. In this short note, we prove that if all central sections of a star body LL are completely symmetric, then LL has to be a ball. A special case of our result states that if all sections of LL are origin symmetric and 1-symmetric, then LL has to be a Euclidean ball. This answers a question from \cite{R2}. Our result is a consequence of a general theorem that we establish, stating that if the restrictions in almost all equators of a real function ff defined on the sphere, are isotropic functions, then ff is constant a.e. In the last section of this note, applications, improvements and related open problems are discussed and two additional open questions from \cite{R} and \cite{R2} are answered.}

Cite

@article{arxiv.1611.09443,
  title  = {Star bodies with completely symmetric sections},
  author = {Sergii Myroshnychenko and Dmitry Ryabogin and Christos Saroglou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09443},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages

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