The length, width, and inradius of space curves

DOI10.1007/S10711-017-0312-3zbMATH Open1403.53005arXiv1605.01144OpenAlexW2963947713MaRDI QIDQ1622892FDOQ1622892

Mohammad Ghomi

Publication date: 21 November 2018

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The width $w$ of a curve $gamma$ in Euclidean space $R^n$ is the infimum of the distances between all pairs of parallel hyperplanes which bound $gamma$, while its inradius $r$ is the supremum of the radii of all spheres which are contained in the convex hull of $gamma$ and are disjoint from $gamma$. We use a mixture of topological and integral geometric techniques, including an application of Borsuk Ulam theorem due to Wienholtz and Crofton's formulas, to obtain lower bounds on the length of $gamma$ subject to constraints on $r$ and $w$. The special case of closed curves is also considered in each category. Our estimates confirm some conjectures of Zalgaller up to $99\mathrm{\%}$ of their stated value, while we also disprove one of them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01144

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zbMATH Keywords

convex hullwidthinradiusescape pathasteroid surveyBellman's lost in a forest problemCrofton's formulasoptimal search patternsecond hullsphere inspection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15)

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