Flat shadow boundary characterization of ellipsoids
Flat shadow boundary characterization of ellipsoids
Let , , be a convex body and let be a hypersurface that is the image of an embedding of the sphere , with contained in the interior of . Flat shadow boundary conjecture. If every point light source on creates a flat shadow boundary on , then is an ellipsoid. This extends known results for polyhedral enclosing hypersurfaces and for point sources in an open neighborhood of ; the general case is presented as a central open problem.
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Bartłomiej Zawalski, “On flat shadow boundaries from point light sources and the characterization of ellipsoids”, arXiv:2603.29130 (2026).
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