Degree conjecture for surfaces of revolution with trigonometric-polynomial support functions

Let N2N\geq 2, and let pp be a trigonometric polynomial of degree NN with coefficients aN,bNa_N,b_N satisfying aN0a_N\ne 0 or bN0b_N\ne 0. Let fR[x,y,z]f\in\mathbb{R}[x,y,z] be the defining polynomial of the surface of revolution obtained by rotating the curve associated with pp around the XX-axis. Degree conjecture. The partial degrees of ff satisfy

degxf=degyf=degzf=4N+4,\deg_x f=\deg_y f=\deg_z f=4N+4,

and the total degree of ff is 4N+44N+4. In particular, a constant-width surface of revolution has a defining polynomial of degree 4N+44N+4 when its support function is a trigonometric polynomial of degree NN. 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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