Total diameter and area of closed submanifolds

Abstract: The total diameter of a closed planar curve

C s u b s e t R^{2}

is the integral of its antipodal chord lengths. We show that this quantity is bounded below by twice the area of

C

. Furthermore, when

C

is convex or centrally symmetric, the lower bound is twice as large. Both inequalities are sharp and the equality holds in the convex case only when

C

is a circle. We also generalize these results to

m

dimensional submanifolds of

R^{n}

, where the "area" will be defined in terms of the mod

2

winding numbers of the submanifold about the

n - m - 1

dimensional affine subspaces of

R^{n}

.

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