Intersection bodies and polytopes
A positive, even, continuous function on the unit sphere \(S^{n-1}\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) is the radial function \(\rho_K\) of a star body \(K\). \(K\) is called the intersection body of a star body \(L\) if \(\rho_K\) equals the spherical Radon transform \(R\rho_L\) of \(\rho_L\). In connection with the Busemann-Petty problem, the question arose which convex polytopes are intersection bodies (of star bodies). Here, the author shows that, for \(n>3\), no origin-symmetric convex polytope \(K\) is the intersection body of a star body. This corrects a more general, but erroneous result from \textit{G. Zhang} [Am. J. Math. 118, No. 2, 319-340 (1996; Zbl 0854.52004)] for which a counterexample was found by \textit{A. Koldobsky} [Am. J. Math. 120, No. 4, 827-840 (1998; Zbl 0914.52001)]. The proof of the current result is based on the case \(n=4\), the extension to higher dimensions follows from the fact that central sections of intersection bodies are intersection bodies. For \(n=4\), the well-known explicit inversion formula for \(R\) is used to show that, for a polytope \(K\), \(R^{-1} \rho_K\) is not a bounded function. The case \(n=3\) which remains open here, is settled in a paper by \textit{S. Campi} [Mathematika 46, No. 1, 15-27 (1999; see the following review)].
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