New affine measures of symmetry for convex bodies

Mathieu Meyer, Carsten Schütt, Elisabeth M. Werner

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Abstract

Grünbaum introduced measures of symmetry for convex bodies that measure how far a given convex body is from a centrally symmetric one. Here, we introduce new measures of symmetry that measure how far a given convex body is from one with "enough symmetries". To define these new measures of symmetry, we use affine covariant points. We give examples of convex bodies whose affine covariant points are "far apart". In particular, we give an example of a convex body whose centroid and Santaló point are "far apart".

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2920-2942
Number of pages23
JournalAdvances in Mathematics
Volume228
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2011
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
✩ Partially supported by an NSF grant, an FRG-NSF grant and a BSF grant. * Corresponding author at: Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Meyer), [email protected] (C. Schütt), [email protected] (E.M. Werner).

Keywords

  • Convex bodies
  • Measures of symmetry
  • Santaló point

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