Conjecture on intersections of support cones characterizing homothetic ellipsoids

Let L,KRnL,K\subset \mathbb{R}^{n} be convex bodies, with n3n\geq 3, and suppose that LintKL\subset \operatorname{int}K. For xRnKx\in\mathbb{R}^{n}\setminus K, let S(L,x)S(L,x) denote the boundary of the cone generated by LL with apex xx. Support-cone intersection conjecture. For every xbdKx\in\operatorname{bd}K, there exist ybdKy\in\operatorname{bd}K and a hyperplane Π\Pi such that

S(L,x)S(L,y)=ΠbdK.S(L,x)\cap S(L,y)=\Pi\cap\operatorname{bd}K.

Then LL and KK are homothetic ellipsoids. The source presents this as a problem motivated by an observation about intersections of support cones; the supplied parser gives no evidence that it has been resolved.

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Efrén Morales-Amaya, Geronimmo Mondragón and Jesús Jerónimo-Castro, “On characteristic properties of the ellipsoid in terms of circumscribed cones of a convex body”, arXiv:2401.03983 (2025).

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