Conjecture that planar grazes characterize ellipsoids
Let be convex bodies with . For a point , let denote the graze of from , namely the intersection of the boundary of the support cone of from with . Suppose that, for every , lies in a hyperplane. Planar-graze characterization conjecture. Then is an ellipsoid. The source presents this as an expected extension of known characterizations of ellipsoids by planar shadow boundaries and grazes; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.
References
Primary source
Ivan Gonzalez Garcia, Jesus Jeronimo Castro, Diana Janett Verdusco Hernandez and Efren Morales Amaya, “A characterization of the ellipsoid through planar grazes”, arXiv:2207.13294 (2025).
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