The flat-graze conjecture for convex bodies
The flat-graze conjecture for convex bodies
Let be convex bodies in with and . For , let the graze be the set of contact points on support lines to through . Flat-graze conjecture. If is flat for every , then is an ellipsoid.
This conjecture extends results of Marchaud and Burton, which establish the ellipsoid conclusion under related hypotheses involving a hyperplane or a neighborhood of the boundary. The stated formulation remains open.
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Jesús Jerónimo-Castro, Luis Montejano and Efrén Morales-Amaya, “Flat grazes of convex bodies and local characterization of quadrics”, arXiv:2503.00212 (2025).
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