Ellipsoid characterization theorems

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2012-0031MaRDI QIDQ4906562zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zsolt Lángi

Publication date 28 February 2013

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3334, http://real.mtak.hu/26358/1/equaltangents_revised.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

billiard angular bisectorbilliard reflectionBusemann angular bisectorellipsoidGlogovskij angular bisectornormed spacetangent segment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterizations of Hilbert spaces (46C15) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21)

Abstract: In this note we prove two ellipsoid characterization theorems. The first one is that if $K$ is a convex body in a normed space with unit ball $M$, and for any point $potinK$ and in any 2-dimensional plane $P$ intersecting $interK$ and containing $p$, there are two tangent segments of the same normed length from $p$ to $K$, then $K$ and $M$ are homothetic ellipsoids. Furthermore, we show that if $M$ is the unit ball of a strictly convex, smooth norm, and in this norm billiard angular bisectors coincide with Busemann angular bisectors or Glogovskij angular bisectors, then $M$ is an ellipse.

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