More on compacta with convex projections. (Q1852367)
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More on compacta with convex projections. (English)
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5 January 2003
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The authors deal with the phenomenon of nonconvex compact sets having convex projections (shadows) onto every hyperplane. They establish some properties of such sets and prove existence of such a set even with a prescribed condition. The main results are the following 2 theorems. Theorem 1. If \(C\) is a nonconvex compact set in the Euclidean \(n\)-space, \(n>2\), with all its shadows convex, then either (1) \(C\) contains an \((n-1)\)-cell (i.e. a subset homeomorphic to the standard closed \((n-1)\)-dimensional disc), or (2) there exist \(n+1\) distinct hyperplanes such that the intersection of \(C\) with any of them contains a topological \((n-2)\)-sphere. Theorem 4. For every \(n>2\), there exists a nonconvex compact set \(C\) in the Euclidean \(n\)-space with all its shadows convex such that there are precisely three distinct hyperplanes whose intersection with \(C\) contains a topological \((n-2)\)-sphere. (Application of Theorem 1 to the set \(C\) from Theorem 4 shows that \(C\) must contain an \((n-1)\)-cell.)
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