1996 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Busemann-Petty Problem
verfasst von : Chuanming Zong, James J. Dudziak
Erschienen in: Strange Phenomena in Convex and Discrete Geometry
Verlag: Springer New York
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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The search for relationships between a convex body and its projections or sections has a long history. In 1841, A. Cauchy found that the surface area of a convex body can be expressed in terms of the areas of its projections as follows: $$s\left( K \right) = \frac{1}{{{\omega _{n - 1}}}}\int_{\partial \left( B \right)} {\bar v\left( {{P_u}\left( K \right)} \right)d\lambda \left( u \right)} .$$ Here, s(K) denotes the surface area of a convex body K ⊂ Rn, $$\bar v\left( X \right)$$ denotes the (n − 1)-dimensional “area” of a set X ⊂ Rn−1, P u denotes the orthogonal projection from Rn to the hyperplane H u = {x ∈ Rn: 〈x, u〉 = 0} determined by a unit vector u of Rn, and λ denotes surface-area measure on ∂(B). In contrast, the closely related problem of finding an expression for the volume of K in terms of the areas of its projections P u (K) (or the areas of its sections I u (K) = K ⋂ H u ) proved to be unexpectedly and extremely difficult.