On a question of Makai and Martini on bodies of~constant width

DOI10.1007/S13366-014-0205-7MaRDI QIDQ464818zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aleksandr A. Polyanskii

Publication date 30 October 2014

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s13366-014-0205-7

zbMATH Keywords

bodies of constant widthconvex geometrydiscrete geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20)

Review text

The author proves that, for any \(n\geq 3\), the following properties are not equivalent in case of a convex body \(B\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n}\) with diameter \(1\): ``Any \(n\) mutually perpendicular non-degenerate chords with a common point have total length at least \(1\) and ``B is a body of constant width \(1\). The paper solves a problem formulated by \textit{E. Makai jun.} and \textit{H. Martini} [Geom. Dedicata 34, No. 2, 199--209 (1990; Zbl 0688.52002)].

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