The geometry of discotopes

DOI10.4418/2022.77.1.8MaRDI QIDQ5101850zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 2 September 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01241

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic boundaryconvex bodydeterminantal varietydiscotopezonoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinantal varieties (14M12) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21) General convexity (52A99)

Abstract: We study a class of semialgebraic convex bodies called discotopes. These are instances of zonoids, objects of interest in real algebraic geometry and random geometry. We focus on the face structure and on the boundary hypersurface of discotopes, highlighting interesting birational properties which may be investigated using tools from algebraic geometry. When a discotope is the Minkowski sum of two-dimensional discs, the Zariski closure of its set of extreme points is an irreducible hypersurface. In this case, we provide an upper bound for the degree of the hypersurface, drawing connections to the theory of classical determinantal varieties.

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