Barycentric cuts through a convex body

DOI10.1007/S00454-021-00364-7MaRDI QIDQ2105325zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Tancer, Uli Wagner, Zuzana Safernova

Publication date 8 December 2022

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13536

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodycritical pointsbarycenterTukey depthsmooth manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70)

Abstract: Let $K$ be a convex body in $mathbb{R}^n$ (i.e., a compact convex set with nonempty interior). Given a point $p$ in the interior of $K$, a hyperplane $h$ passing through $p$ is called barycentric if $p$ is the barycenter of $Kcaph$. In 1961, Gr"{u}nbaum raised the question whether, for every $K$, there exists an interior point $p$ through which there are at least $n+1$ distinct barycentric hyperplanes. Two years later, this was seemingly resolved affirmatively by showing that this is the case if $p=p_0$ is the point of maximal depth in $K$. However, while working on a related question, we noticed that one of the auxiliary claims in the proof is incorrect. Here, we provide a counterexample; this re-opens Gr"unbaum's question. It follows from known results that for $ngeq2$, there are always at least three distinct barycentric cuts through the point $p_{0}inK$ of maximal depth. Using tools related to Morse theory we are able to improve this bound: four distinct barycentric cuts through $p_0$ are guaranteed if $ngeq3$.

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