Is a complete, reduced set necessarily of constant width?

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2017-0058MaRDI QIDQ1737114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors René Brandenberg, Bernardo González Merino, Thomas Jahn, Horst Martini

Publication date 26 March 2019

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07531

zbMATH Keywords

bodies of constant widthBohnenblust's inequalitycomplete bodiesgaugesgeneralized Minkowski spacesLeichtweiss' inequalitynormed spacesperfect normsreduced bodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) 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) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

Abstract: Is it true that a convex body $K$ being complete and reduced with respect to some gauge body $C$ is necessarily of constant width, that is, satisfies $K-K=ho(C-C)$ for some $ho>0$? We prove this implication for several cases including the following: if $K$ is a simplex and or if $K$ possesses a smooth extreme point, then the implication holds. Moreover, we derive several new results on perfect norms.

Review text

A convex body \(K\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) is of constant width if the distance between any two parallel supporting hyperplanes to \(K\) is the same. A convex body is diametrically complete if any proper superset of \(K\) has a larger diameter than \(K\). In \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) with the Euclidean norm a convex body has constant width if and only if \(K\) is diametrically complete. In \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) with a norm different from the Euclidean norm this does not hold in general. A norm on \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) is called perfect if this equivalence holds. This is the starting point of the paper. A convex body \(K\) is called reduced if any proper convex subset has a smaller minimal width. The authors show that a complete and reduced simplex is of constant width. This also holds for convex bodies with a smooth extreme point.

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