ON THE MAXIMIZATION OF A CLASS OF FUNCTIONALS ON CONVEX REGIONS, AND THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FARTHEST CONVEX SET

DOI10.1112/S0025579310000495MaRDI QIDQ3584590zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Evans M. II Harrell, Antoine Henrot

Publication date 30 August 2010

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1464

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff distance\(L^2\) distanceplanar convex set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60)

Abstract: We consider a family of functionals $J$ to be maximized over the planar convex sets $K$ for which the perimeter and Steiner point have been fixed. Assuming that $J$ is the integral of a quadratic expression in the support function $h$, we show that the maximizer is always either a triangle or a line segment (which can be considered as a collapsed triangle). Among the concrete consequences of the main theorem is the fact that, given any convex body $K_1$ of finite perimeter, the set in the class we consider that is farthest away in the sense of the $L^2$ distance is always a line segment. We also prove the same property for the Hausdorff distance.

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