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Illuminating spindle convex bodies and minimizing the volume of spherical sets of constant width (English)
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1 March 2012
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A \textit{spindle convex body} is the (non-empty) intersection of (in)-finitely many congruent closed \(d\)-dimensional balls. Moreover, it is said to be \textit{fat} if it contains the centers of all the balls. In this paper the author extends a result by \textit{O. Schramm} [Mathematika 35, No. 2, 180--189 (1988; Zbl 0663.52006)] to the family of fat spindle convex bodies. More precisely, Schramm proved that there are at most \(5d^{3/2}(4+\ln d)(3/2)^{d/2}\) directions illuminating any constant width set in \(\mathbb{E}^d\). Here, the author improves this bound to \(4(\pi/3)^{1/2}d^{3/2}(3+\ln d)(3/2)^{d/2}\) for the family of fat spindle convex bodies. He also shows that among all convex bodies of constant width \(w\) of \(\mathbb{S}^3\), a set \(C\) has minimal volume if and only if its polar body \(C^*\) (with constant width \(\pi-w\)) has minimal volume among all convex bodies of \(\mathbb{S}^3\) with constant width \(\pi-w\).
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illumination conjecture
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constant width sets in spherical space
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Boltyanski-Hadwiger illumination conjecture
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(fat) spindle convex bodies
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spindle convex hull
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Gauss (resp., normal) images of faces
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illumination by random directions
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convex bodies of constant width in spherical space
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