Flag numbers and floating bodies

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2018.09.006MaRDI QIDQ1789503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Florian Besau, Elisabeth M. Werner, Carsten Schütt

Publication date 10 October 2018

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11287

zbMATH Keywords

flag numberflag simplexfloating bodyhyperbolic polytopespherical polytopeweighted floating body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation by convex sets (52A27) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05)

Abstract: We investigate weighted floating bodies of polytopes. We show that the weighted volume depends on the complete flags of the polytope. This connection is obtained by introducing flag simplices, which translate between the metric and combinatorial structure. Our results are applied in spherical and hyperbolic space. This leads to new asymptotic results for polytopes in these spaces. We also provide explicit examples of spherical and hyperbolic convex bodies whose floating bodies behave completely different from any convex body in Euclidean space.

Review text

This paper studies an extension of floating bodies for convex polytopes. Let \(P\) be an \(n\)-polytope in \({\mathbb R}^n\). For continuous functions \(\varphi,\psi:P \to(0,\infty)\), let \(\Phi,\Psi\) denote the measure with density \(\varphi\), respectively \(\psi\), with respect to Lebesgue measure on \({\mathbb R}^n\). The \(\varphi\)-weighted floating body of \(P\) for sufficiently small \(\delta>0\) is defined by \[ P_\delta^\varphi =\bigcap\{H^-:\Phi(P\cap H^+)\leq \delta\}, \] where the intersection is over hyperplanes \(H\), and \(H^-,H^+\) are the closed halfspaces bounded by \(H\). The main result of the paper says that \[ \lim_{\delta\to 0^+} \frac{\Psi(P)-\Psi(P_\delta^\varphi)}{\delta\left(\ln \frac{1}{\delta}\right)^{n-1}} = \sum_{v\in\text{vert}\,P} \frac{\psi(v)}{\varphi(v)} \frac{|\text{flag}_v(P)|}{n!n^{n-1}}, \] where \(\text{vert}\,P\) is the set of vertices of \(P\) and \(|\text{flag}_v(P)|\) is the number of complete flags of \(P\) that have \(v\) as a vertex. For the proof, the authors introduce so-called flag simplices and then restate parts of the older proof [\textit{C. Schütt}, Isr. J. Math. 73, No. 1, 65--77 (1991; Zbl 0745.52006)] for the case \(\varphi\equiv\psi\equiv 1\) in terms of flag simplices, showing that the volume of \(P\setminus P_\delta\) is asymptotically concentrated in the union of the flag simplices. This is then extended to a proof of the main result. Finally, the main result is applied to spherical and hyperbolic polytopes.

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