Revisiting floating bodies

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2016.06.001zbMATH Open1357.51012arXiv1510.07542OpenAlexW2963550881MaRDI QIDQ346263FDOQ346263

Emilio Fernández, Óscar Ciaurri, Luz Roncal

Publication date: 5 December 2016

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The conic sections, as well as the solids obtained by revolving these curves, and many of their surprising properties, were already studied by Greek mathematicians since at least the fourth century B.C. Some of these properties come to the light, or are rediscovered, from time to time. In this paper we characterize the conic sections as the plane curves whose tangent lines cut off from a certain similar curve segments of constant area. We also characterize some quadrics as the surfaces whose tangent planes cut off from a certain similar surface compact sets of constant volume. Our work is developed in the most general multidimensional case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07542

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zbMATH Keywords

coneselliptic surfacesArchimedesClairaut equationfloating bodieshyperbolic surfacesmultidimensional conoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Classical solutions to PDEs (35A09) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to geometry (51-02)

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