Translative equal-volume property and Euclidean constant width

Let Kd\mathcal{K}_d be the family of convex bodies in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. A convex body has the translative equal volume property when the relevant volume associated with every intersecting translate is constant, as defined earlier in the paper. A body has constant width in a Euclidean space when every pair of parallel supporting hyperplanes is separated by the same Euclidean distance.

Translative constant-width conjecture. If d3d\geq3 and some KKdK\in\mathcal{K}_d satisfies the translative equal volume property, then KK is a convex body of constant width in a Euclidean space.

In the plane, the analogous property is characterized by constant-width bodies in Radon norms. The cited fact that a normed space of dimension at least three whose planar sections are all Radon is Euclidean motivates this higher-dimensional conjecture, whose resolution is not given in the supplied text.

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Ákos G. Horváth, “Volume of convex hull of two bodies and related problems”, arXiv:1509.08859 (2016).

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