The volume of the intersection of a convex body with its translates

DOI10.1112/S0025579300007051MaRDI QIDQ4287329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mathieu Meyer, Shlomo Reisner, Michael Schmuckenschlaeger

Publication date 12 April 1994

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9204212

zbMATH Keywords

ellipsoidsymmetric convex bodyMinkowski-functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20)

Abstract: It is proved that for a symmetric convex body K in R^n, if for some tau > 0, |K cap (x+tau K)| depends on ||x||_K only, then K is an ellipsoid. As a part of the proof, smoothness properties of convolution bodies ls are studied.

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