Convex floating bodies of equilibrium

DOI10.1090/PROC/15697MaRDI QIDQ5081533zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Florentin, Elisabeth M. Werner, N. Zhang, Carsten Schütt

Publication date 15 June 2022

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09006

zbMATH Keywords

floating bodiessymmetric convex bodyUlam's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We study a long standing open problem by Ulam, which is whether the Euclidean ball is the unique body of uniform density which will float in equilibrium in any direction. We answer this problem in the class of origin symmetric n-dimensional convex bodies whose relative density to water is 1/2. For n=3, this result is due to Falconer.

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