Alexandrov's isodiametric conjecture and the cut locus of a surface

zbMATH Open1341.52012arXiv1406.0811MaRDI QIDQ899703FDOQ899703

David Krejčiřík, Pedro Freitas

Publication date: 30 December 2015

Published in: Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that Alexandrov's conjecture relating the area and diameter of a convex surface holds for the surface of a general ellipsoid. This is a direct consequence of a more general result which estimates the deviation from the optimal conjectured bound in terms of the length of the cut locus of a point on the surface. We also prove that the natural extension of the conjecture to general dimension holds among closed convex spherically symmetric Riemannian manifolds. Our results are based on a new symmetrization procedure which we believe to be interesting in its own right.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0811

zbMATH Keywords

cut locusdiametersymmetrizationconvex surfacesellipsoidsAlexandrov's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

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• On the cut locus in Alexandrov spaces and applications to convex surfaces
• Estimate of isodiametric constant for closed surfaces
• Metric structure of cut loci in surfaces and Ambrose's problem

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