Matching centroids by a projective transformation

DOI10.1007/S10711-023-00789-9MaRDI QIDQ6038629zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan Izmestiev

Publication date 2 May 2023

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6176

zbMATH Keywords

barycenterHilbert metricprojective transformationSantalo point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Abstract: Given two subsets of R^d, when does there exist a projective transformation that maps them to two sets with a common centroid? When is this transformation unique modulo affine transformations? We study these questions for 0- and d-dimensional sets, obtaining several existence and uniqueness results as well as examples of non-existence or non-uniqueness. If both sets have dimension 0, then the problem is related to the analytic center of a polytope and to polarity with respect to an algebraic set. If one set is a single point, and the other is a convex body, then it is equivalent by polar duality to the existence and uniqueness of the Santal'o point. For a finite point set versus a ball, it generalizes the M"obius centering of edge-circumscribed convex polytopes and is related to the conformal barycenter of Douady-Earle. If both sets are $d$-dimensional, then we are led to define the Santal'o point of a pair of convex bodies. We prove that the Santal'o point of a pair exists and is unique, if one of the bodies is contained within the other and has Hilbert diameter less than a dimension-depending constant. The bound is sharp and is obtained by a box inside a cross-polytope.

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