Convex bodies with polyhedral midhypersurfaces (Q1901976)

For a given direction \(m\) in \(E^d\) and a given real number \(\lambda \in [0,1]\) denote by \(S_\lambda\) the union of points which divide in the proportion \(\lambda : 1\)-\(\lambda\) all parallel to \(m\) directed chords of a given convex body \(K\) in the Euclidean space \(E^d\). The set \(S_\lambda\) is called a \(\lambda\)-midhypersurface of \(K\). We say that a \(\lambda\)-midhypersurface of a convex body \(K \subset E^d\) is polyhedral provided it is the intersection of \(K\) and a polyhedral hypersurface in \(E^d\). Main results of the paper are concentrated around the following assertions. Theorem 1. For a convex-body \(K \subset E^d\), \(d \geq 2\) the following conditions are equivalent: (1) for every direction \(m\) in \(E^d\) there is a real number \(\lambda \in [0,1]\) such that the \(\lambda\)-midhypersurface \(S_\lambda \) of \(K\) in the direction \(m\) is polyhedral, (2) \(K\) is an ellipsoid or a convex polytope. Theorem 2. If any two-dimensional section of a convex body \(K \subset E^d\), \(d \geq 3\) through a given point \(x \in \text{int} K\) is an ellipse or a polygon, then \(K\) is an ellipsoid or a polytope. Theorem 3. If any two-dimensional section of a convex body \(K \subset E^d\), \(d \geq 3\) is strictly convex or polygonal, then \(K\) is strictly convex or a polytope.