When is a spherical body of constant diameter of constant width?
In this interesting paper, the author studies questions related to convex bodies in the \(d\)-dimensional sphere. It concerns the question of width. Roughly speaking, a width of a convex body in the \(d\)-dimensional sphere is a notion defined by thickness of narrowest lunes containing it. The author is interested in spherical convex bodies having constant width, meaning that all its widths are equal, and he compares this property to the property of having constant diameter. Here, one first defines the notion of diametrically opposed pair of points in the convex body as two points whose distance is equal to the diameter of the convex body. Then, the convex body is said to be of constant diameter if for any point there exists another point which, together with the first point, forms a diametrically opposite pair. One of the results obtained in this paper is that a smooth convex body of diameter \(\delta v\frac{\pi}{2}\) on the \(d\)-dimensional sphere is of constant diameter if and only if it is of constant width, and that in this case the width and the diameter are equal. The subject matter is very interesting and the questions studied are beautiful. As the author notes, this kind of questions is compelling not only for spherical convex bodies, but in other spaces as well. The reviewer notes that Leonhard Euler studied related questions in the Euclidean plane, see for instance in his memoir on curves of constant breadth [\textit{L. Euler}, ``De curvis triangularibus, Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae 1778, No. II, 3--30 (1781); Opera Omnia. Series 1. Vol. 28. Commentationes geometricae. Leipzig: Teubner. 298--321 (1955)]. (There are other papers of Euler on this subject.)
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