Reflections of planar convex bodies

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-28186-5_6MaRDI QIDQ5354935zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rolf Schneider

Publication date 6 September 2017

Published in Convexity and Discrete Geometry Including Graph Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00541

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodyconvexity pointexposing pointmiddle set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Abstract: It is proved that every convex body in the plane has a point such that the union of the body and its image under reflection in the point is convex. If the body is not centrally symmetric, then it has, in fact, three affinely independent points with this property.

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