On projective hedgehogs (envelopes parametrized by their Gauss map)

Publication date 24 March 1998

Published in Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

central asymmetry of a convex hedgehog hedgehog as envelope of hyperplanes projective hedgehog Steiner's Roman surface

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

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As a generalization of the fact that a closed strictly convex hypersurface \(M^n\) in Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^{n+ 1}\) may be considered as envelope of its support hyperplanes \(\langle x,p\rangle= h(p)\) \((p\in S^n)\), \textit{R. Langevin}, \textit{G. Levitt} and \textit{H. Rosenberg} [Banach Cent. Publ. 20, 245-253 (1988; Zbl 0658.53004)] denoted such an envelope \({\mathcal H}_h\) by ``hedgehog (hérisson) if its defining function \(h: S^n\to\mathbb{R}^n\) is any function of class \({\mathcal C}^\infty\). \({\mathcal H}_h\) may be parametrized by \(S^n\) and has the representation \(x_h(p)= h(p)p+ (\text{grad }h)(p)\). In general, there exist singularities for \({\mathcal H}_h\); and in the case of \(h(-p)= -h(p)\), the parametrization may be reduced to the projective space \(P^n\) (projective hedgehog). The author investigates projective hegehogs as central asymmetries of convex hedgehogs, in particular of convex hedgehogs of constant width. A typical result of him is the fact that every analytical projective hedgehog is situated in the convex hull of its singularities. Finally, he presents a hedgehog version of Steiner's Roman surface in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) admitting an axial symmetry like Boy's surface.

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