Typical curvature behaviour of bodies of constant width

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2014.10.025zbMATH Open1310.52002arXiv1404.7019OpenAlexW2021179374MaRDI QIDQ488964FDOQ488964

Authors: Rolf Schneider, Imre Bárány 

Publication date: 27 January 2015

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that an $n$-dimensional convex body which is typical in the sense of Baire category, shows a simple, but highly non-intuitive curvature behaviour: at almost all of its boundary points, in the sense of measure, all curvatures are zero, but there is also a dense and uncountable set of boundary points at which all curvatures are infinite. The purpose of this paper is to find a counterpart to this phenomenon for typical convex bodies of given constant width. Such bodies cannot have zero curvatures. A main result says that for a typical $n$-dimensional convex body of constant width $1$ (without loss of generality), at almost all boundary points, in the sense of measure, all curvatures are equal to $1$. (In contrast, note that a ball of width $1$ has radius $1/2$, hence all its curvatures are equal to $2$.) Since the property of constant width is linear with respect to Minkowski addition, the proof requires recourse to a linear curvature notion, which is provided by the tangential radii of curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7019

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zbMATH Keywords

Baire categorycurvatureconvex bodies of constant widthlower radius of curvaturesupport elementtangential radii of curvatureupper radius of curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Baire category, Baire spaces (54E52)

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