A counter-example to a conjectured characterization of the sphere

DOI10.1016/S0764-4442(00)01756-0MaRDI QIDQ2708169zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yves Martinez-Maure

Publication date 28 March 2003

Published in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Série I. Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0764-4442(00)01756-0

zbMATH Keywords

convex surfacehedgehogssurfaces of constant width

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

Review text

The following conjecture is known: A closed convex surface of class \(C_+^2\) whose principal curvatures \(K_1, K_2\) satisfy NEWLINE\[NEWLINE(K_1 - c)(K_2 -c) \leq 0NEWLINE\]NEWLINE for some constant \(c\) must be a sphere. The conjecture was demonstrated for analytic surfaces of revolution or surfaces which allow a circular orthogonal projection. The author reformulates this conjecture in terms of hedgehogs (in French: herissons) and he gives a counter-example. Besides he proves the conjecture for surfaces of constant width and gives a new proof for analytic surfaces.

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