Abstract

Generalizing certain characteristic properties of ellipsoids, we describe all convex hypersurfaces in the n-dimensional real space, possibly unbounded, whose polar sets and point-source shadow-boundaries satisfy planarity conditions.

Author information

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Valeriu Soltan

Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, U.S.A.

vsoltan@gmu.edu

Keywords

  • Body
  • convex
  • ellipsoid
  • polar set
  • quadric hypersurface
  • shadow-boundary
  • solid

Mathematics Subject Classification

52A20

Suggested citation

V. Soltan. “Convex Surfaces with Planar Polar Sets and Point-Source Shadow-Boundaries.” Journal of Convex Analysis 24 (2017), No. 2, 645–660.

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