Collinear supporting-cone flatness characterization of ellipsoids
Collinear supporting-cone flatness 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 , and with star-convex with respect to the origin. Supporting-cone flatness conjecture. If for every there is a different such that the line passes through the origin and the intersection of the boundaries of the supporting cones of with apexes at and is flat, then is an ellipsoid. This is posed as a further characterization problem for ellipsoids and remains open.
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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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