Characterization of spheres by stereographic projection

DOI10.1007/BF01198814MaRDI QIDQ689733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 17 November 1993

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01198814

angle-preserving maps characterization of spheres convex surfaces stereographic projection

Real and complex geometry (51M99) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45) Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30)

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Let \(S\) be a closed convex surface in \(\mathbb{E}^{d+1}\) with \(c=(0,\ldots,0,1)\in S\) and supporting hyperplane \(\mathbb{E}^ d:x_{d+1}=0\). Assume that for each \(x\in S\backslash\{0\}\) the ray through \(x\) starting at \(c\) meets \(\mathbb{E}^ d\) at a point \(s(x)\), say, and that the mapping \(s(\cdot)\) from \(S\backslash\{0\}\) into \(\mathbb{E}^ d\) thus defined is injective. \(s(\cdot)\) is called stereographic projection of \(S\) into \(\mathbb{E}^ d\). Then \(S\) is a sphere or a truncated sphere if and only if \(s(\cdot)\) is angle-preserving. Here a truncated sphere is the boundary of the intersection of a solid ball in \(\mathbb{E}^{d+1}\) and the halfspace \(x_{d+1}\geq 0\). The proof makes use of tools from measure theory and geometry.

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