Degree conjecture for surfaces of revolution with trigonometric-polynomial support functions
Degree conjecture for surfaces of revolution with trigonometric-polynomial support functions
Let , and let be a trigonometric polynomial of degree with coefficients satisfying or . Let be the defining polynomial of the surface of revolution obtained by rotating the curve associated with around the -axis. Degree conjecture. The partial degrees of satisfy
and the total degree of is . In particular, a constant-width surface of revolution has a defining polynomial of degree when its support function is a trigonometric polynomial of degree . The claim is motivated by numerical computations and proposes a simple relation between the support-function degree and the defining-polynomial degree; the source does not state whether it has been proved or disproved.
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Magali Bardet and Térence Bayen, “On the degree of the polynomial defining a planar algebraic curves of constant width”, arXiv:1312.4358 (2013).
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