scholarly journals ON THE MAGNITUDE AND INTRINSIC VOLUMES OF A CONVEX BODY IN EUCLIDEAN SPACE

Mathematika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-355
Author(s):  
Mark W. Meckes
2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fejes Tóth Gábor

AbstractA classical theorem of Rogers states that for any convex body K in n-dimensional Euclidean space there exists a covering of the space by translates of K with density not exceeding n log n + n log log n + 5n. Rogers’ theorem does not say anything about the structure of such a covering. We show that for sufficiently large values of n the same bound can be attained by a covering which is the union of O(log n) translates of a lattice arrangement of K.


2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 919-936
Author(s):  
Daniel Hug ◽  
Rolf Schneider

We consider a stationary Poisson hyperplane process with given directional distribution and intensity in d-dimensional Euclidean space. Generalizing the zero cell of such a process, we fix a convex body K and consider the intersection of all closed halfspaces bounded by hyperplanes of the process and containing K. We study how well these random polytopes approximate K (measured by the Hausdorff distance) if the intensity increases, and how this approximation depends on the directional distribution in relation to properties of K.


2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
pp. 682-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Schneider

We study lower-dimensional volume-weighted typical faces of a stationary Poisson hyperplane tessellation in d-dimensional Euclidean space. After showing how their distribution can be derived from that of the zero cell, we obtain sharp lower and upper bounds for the expected vertex number of the volume-weighted typical k-face (k=2,…,d). The bounds are respectively attained by parallel mosaics and by isotropic tessellations. We conclude with a remark on expected face numbers and expected intrinsic volumes of the zero cell.


2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-422
Author(s):  
T. Bisztriczky ◽  
F. Fodor

The Separation Problem, originally posed by K. Bezdek in [1], asks for the minimum number s(O, K) of hyperplanes needed to strictly separate an interior point O in a convex body K from all faces of K. It is conjectured that s(O, K) ≦ 2d in d-dimensional Euclidean space. We prove this conjecture for the class of all totally-sewn neighbourly 4-dimensional polytopes.


1962 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Asplund ◽  
E. Grosswald ◽  
B. Grünbaum

In the present note we discuss some properties of a ‘measure of asymmetry’ of convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space. Various measures of asymmetry have been treated in the literature (see, for example, (1), (6); references to most of the relevant results may be found in (4)). The measure introduced here has the somewhat surprising property that for n ≥ 3 the n-simplex is not the most asymmetric convex body in En. It seems to be the only measure of asymmetry for which this fact is known.


1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 710-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Schneider

We choose a uniform random point in a given convex bodyKinn-dimensional Euclidean space and through that point the secant ofKwith random direction chosen independently and isotropically. Given the volume ofK, the expectation of the length of the resulting random secant ofKwas conjectured by Enns and Ehlers [5] to be maximal ifKis a ball. We prove this, and we also treat higher-dimensional sections defined in an analogous way. Next, we consider a finite number of independent isotropic uniform random flats meetingK, and we prove that certain geometric probabilities connected with these again become maximal whenKis a ball.


1972 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. W. Aitchison

Minkowski proved two important finiteness theorems concerning the reduction theory of positive definite quadratic forms (see [6], p. 285 or [7], §8 and §10). A positive definite quadratic form in n variables may be considered as an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space, Rn, and then the two results can be investigated more generally by replacing the ellipsoid by any symmetric convex body in Rn. We show here that when n≧3 the two finiteness theorems hold only in the case of the ellipsoid. This is equivalent to showing that Minkowski's results do not hold in a general Minkowski space, namely in a euclidean space where the unit ball is a general symmetric convex body instead of the sphere or ellipsoid.


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