A characterization of affine length and asymptotic approximation of convex discs (Q1969674)

The author shows, as conjectured by T. Ódor, that any real valued, equiaffine invariant and upper (or lower) semicontinuous valuation \(\mu\), of the space \({\mathcal K}^2\) of all compact convex sets \(K\) in the plane \(\mathbb{E}^2\) is of the form \[ \mu(K)= c_0+c_1A(K)+ c_2\lambda(K). \] Here \(A(K)\) resp. \(\lambda(K)\) are the area resp. the affine perimeter of \(K\) and \(c_0,c_1, c_2\) are constants with \(c_2\geq 0\) (or \(c_2\leq 0)\) in the case of an upper semicontinuous (or lower semicontinuous) valuation \(\mu\). Consequences of this theorem are the equality of \(\lambda(K): =\int_{bd} \kappa(x)^{1\over 3}d \sigma(x)\) \((\kappa\) curvature and \(\sigma\) one-dimensional Hausdorff measure of bd \(K)\) with other ``affine rectificates'' of bd \(K\) [see e.g. \textit{K. Leichtweiß}, On the afine rectification of convex curves, Beitr. Algebra Geom. 40, 185-193 (1999)] as well as the extension of L. Fejes Tóth's approximation formulae \[ \delta(K,{\mathcal P}_n^i) \sim{1 \over 12}\lambda (K)^3{1\over n^2}\text{ as } n\to\infty\text{ and }\delta (K, {\mathcal P}^c_n) \sim{1\over 24}\lambda (K)^3{1\over n^2} \text{ as }n\to \infty \] \((\delta\) symmetric difference distance, \({\mathcal P}_n^i\) resp. \({\mathcal P}_n^c\) set of all convex polygons with at most \(n\) vertices inscribed in \(K\) resp. circumscribed about \(K)\) to general compact convex sets \(K\) in \(\mathbb{E}^2\). [Remark: In the meantime the theorem indicated at first has been generalized to the \(d\)-dimensional case by \textit{M. Ludwig} and \textit{M. Reitzner} [Adv. Math. 147, No. 1, 138-172 (1999; Zbl 0947.52003)].