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On the three-dimensional Blaschke-Lebesgue problem
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by Henri Anciaux and Brendan Guilfoyle PDF
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 139 (2011), 1831-1839 Request permission

Abstract:

The width of a closed convex subset of $n$-dimensional Euclid- ean space is the distance between two parallel supporting hyperplanes. The Blaschke-Lebesgue problem consists of minimizing the volume in the class of convex sets of fixed constant width and is still open in dimension $n \geq 3.$ In this paper we describe a necessary condition that the minimizer of the Blaschke-Lebesgue must satisfy in dimension $n=3$: we prove that the smooth components of the boundary of the minimizer have their smaller principal curvature constant and therefore are either spherical caps or pieces of tubes (canal surfaces).
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  • Henri Anciaux
  • Affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, IME, Bloco A, 1010 Rua do Matão, Cidade Universitária, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
  • Email: henri.anciaux@gmail.com
  • Brendan Guilfoyle
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computing, Institute of Technology, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
  • MR Author ID: 631268
  • Email: brendan.guilfoyle@ittralee.ie
  • Received by editor(s): June 19, 2009
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 19, 2009, August 20, 2009, and May 17, 2010
  • Published electronically: October 7, 2010
  • Additional Notes: The first author was supported by Science Foundation Ireland (Research Frontiers Program)
  • Communicated by: Jon G. Wolfson
  • © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 139 (2011), 1831-1839
  • MSC (2010): Primary 52A40, 52A15
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10588-9
  • MathSciNet review: 2763770