Geometric characterizations of centroids of simplices

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2005.04.046MaRDI QIDQ819692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Steven G. Krantz, John E. McCarthy, Harold Parks

Publication date 29 March 2006

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2005.04.046

(\(d\)-dimensional) simplex \(k\)-skeleton centroid convex polytope Diophantine equation dynamics Lebesgue measure pyramid regular simplex rigid body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12)

Review text

The authors study centroids of different \(k\)-skeletons of simplices in Euclidean \(d\)-space assuming constant density. They prove that the centroid of the full-dimensional simplex \(S\) and of its vertex set coincide, and that the centroids of the other skeleta are generically different. In addition, types of simplices are investigated for which all the centroids for all values of \(k\) coincide. E.g., it is shown that for any \(d= pq-1\), where \(p\) and \(q\) are integers larger than 2, there exists a non-regular \(d\)-simplex for which the centroids of all \(k\)-skeletons, \(1\leq k\leq d\), coincide, and the conjecture is made that the same holds if \(d+1\) is prime and larger than 3. On the other hand it is proved that the centroids for all \(k\) with \(0\leq k\leq d\) coincide iff the sum of the \(k\)-dimensional areas of the \(k\)-faces containing each specific vertex equals \((k+1)/(d+1)\) times the total \(k\)-dimensional area of the \(k\)-skeleton of \(S\). This is applied to verify the existence of a non-regular 4-simplex all whose centroids coincide. Further on, examples are presented for which centroids coincide in pairs, and it is also shown that the centroids do never coincide in triples if the polytopes under consideration are regular pyramids.

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