The Archimedean projection property

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2017-0013zbMATH Open1386.53007arXiv1504.02941OpenAlexW2963969286MaRDI QIDQ1707404FDOQ1707404

Authors: Jeff Dodd, Michael Harrison, Vincent Coll 

Publication date: 29 March 2018

Published in: advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $H$ be a hypersurface in $mathbb{R}^n$ and let $pi$ be an orthogonal projection in $mathbb{R}^n$ restricted to $H$. We say that $H$ satisfies the $Archimedean$ $projection$ $property$ corresponding to $pi$ if there exists a constant $C$ such that $Vol(p{i}^{-1}(U))=CcdotVol(U)$ for every measurable $U$ in the range of $pi$. It is well-known that the $(n-1)$-dimensional sphere, as a hypersurface in $mathbb{R}^n$, satisfies the Archimedean projection property corresponding to any codimension 2 orthogonal projection in $mathbb{R}^n$, the range of any such projection being an $(n-2)$-dimensional ball. Here we construct new hypersurfaces that satisfy Archimedean projection properties. Our construction works for any projection codimension $k$, $2leqkleqn-1$, and it allows us to specify a wide variety of desired projection ranges $Omeg{a}^{n-k}subsetmathbb{R}^{n-k}$. Letting $Omeg{a}^{n-k}$ be an $(n-k)$-dimensional ball for each $k$, it produces a new family of smooth, compact hypersurfaces in $mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying codimension $k$ Archimedean projection properties that includes, in the special case $k=2$, the $(n-1)$-dimensional spheres.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02941

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zbMATH Keywords

eikonal equationhypersurfaces of revolutionArchimedes' theoremequizonal ovaloids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

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