Homothetic floating bodies

Carsten Schütt; Elisabeth Werner

doi:10.1007/BF01264033

Homothetic floating bodies

Carsten Schütt, Elisabeth Werner

Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

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Abstract

We show that a convex body K in ℝⁿ is homothetic to an ellipsoid if there is a sequence {δ_k}kεℕ converging to 0 so that K is homothetic to its floating bodies K_δk.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	335-348
Number of pages	14
Journal	Geometriae Dedicata
Volume	49
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01264033
State	Published - Mar 1 1994

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