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Greg Kuperberg
Circumscribing Constant-Width Bodies with Polytopes
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Published: |
July 9, 1999 |
Keywords: |
constant width, convex, strictly convex, inscribed, circumscribed |
Subject: |
52A15 |
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Abstract
Makeev conjectured that every constant-width body is inscribed in the
dual difference body of a regular simplex. We prove that homologically,
there are an odd number of such circumscribing bodies in dimension
3, and therefore geometrically there is at least one. We show that
the homological answer is zero in higher dimensions, a result which
is inconclusive for the geometric question. We also give a partial
generalization involving affine circumscription of strictly convex bodies.
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Author information
Department of Mathematics, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8633
greg@math.ucdavis.edu
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/
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