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

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Authors Pedro Freitas, David Krejčiřík

Publication date 30 December 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0811, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1448900034

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)

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.

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