The isodiametric problem with lattice-point constraints

DOI10.1007/S00605-008-0541-5MaRDI QIDQ956673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maria A. Hernández Cifre, Achill Schürmann, Frank Vallentin

Publication date 25 November 2008

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2587

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodyDirichlet-Voronoi cellisodiametric problemlatticeparallelohedron

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07)

Abstract: In this paper, the isodiametric problem for centrally symmetric convex bodies in the Euclidean d-space R^d containing no interior non-zero point of a lattice L is studied. It is shown that the intersection of a suitable ball with the Dirichlet-Voronoi cell of 2L is extremal, i.e., it has minimum diameter among all bodies with the same volume. It is conjectured that these sets are the only extremal bodies, which is proved for all three dimensional and several prominent lattices.

Review text

In this paper, the isodiametric problem for centrally symmetric convex bodies in the Euclidean \(d\)-space \({\mathbb R}^d\) containing no interior non-zero point of a lattice~\(L\) is studied. It is shown that the intersection of a suitable ball with the Dirichlet-Voronoi cell of~\(2L\) is extremal, i.e., it has minimum diameter among all bodies with the same volume. The main result states: Let \(L\) be~a full rank lattice in~\({\mathbb R}^d\) and let \(V\in (0, 2^d\det L]\) be a~real number. Suppose that \(K\) is a~centrally symmetric convex body in~\({\mathbb R}^n\) with \(\text{vol}\,K = V\). Then \(\text{diam} K_L(V)\leqslant \text{diam}K\). Here, \(\det L\) is the determinant of~\(L\) and \(K_L(V) = B_d(r_L(V))\cap \text{DL}(2L)\), where \(\text{DL}(L)\) is the Dirichlet-Voronoi cell of~\(L\), and \(r_L(V)\) is the (unique) real number such that \(K_L(V)\) has volume~\(V\). It is also conjectured that these sets are the only extremal bodies, which is proved for all three dimensional and several prominent lattices.

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