Vladyslav Yaskin

  1. A problem of Klee on inner section functions of convex bodies.

    Authors: Richard J. Gardner, Dmitri Ryabogin, Vladyslav Yaskin, Artem Zvavitch
    Subjects: Classical Analysis and ODEs
    Abstract

    In 1969, Vic Klee asked whether a convex body is uniquely determined (up to
    translation and reflection in the origin) by its inner section function, the
    function giving for each direction the maximal area of sections of the body by
    hyperplanes orthogonal to that direction. We answer this question in the
    negative by constructing two infinitely smooth convex bodies of revolution
    about the $x_n$-axis in $\R^n$, $n\ge 3$, one origin symmetric and the other
    not centrally symmetric, with the same inner section function. Moreover, the
    pair of bodies can be arbitrarily close to the unit ball.

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