Sharp symmetric-body bound for Hausdorff distance from convexity

Let KR2K\subset\mathbb{R}^2 be a symmetric convex body with strictly convex C1C^1 boundary. For nonempty compact sets A,BR2A,B\subset\mathbb{R}^2, let RK(a,b)\mathcal{R}_K(a,b) be the family of KK-right triangles whose two specified side lengths are aa and bb, with the degenerate interval cases and RK(0,0)={0}\mathcal{R}_K(0,0)=\{0\} defined as in the source. Let d(K)d^{(K)} denote Hausdorff distance from a set to its convex hull, measured in the norm with unit ball KK, and let vert(T)\operatorname{vert}(T) denote the vertices of TT. The symmetric-body conjecture. One has

d(K)(A+B)2max{d(K)(vert(T)):TRK(d(K)(A),d(K)(B))}.d^{(K)}(A+B)\leq 2\max\left\{d^{(K)}(\operatorname{vert}(T)):T\in\mathcal{R}_K(d^{(K)}(A),d^{(K)}(B))\right\}.

Moreover, for every pair of nonnegative real numbers α\alpha and β\beta, there exist nonempty compact sets A,BR2A,B\subset\mathbb{R}^2 with d(K)(A)=αd^{(K)}(A)=\alpha and d(K)(B)=βd^{(K)}(B)=\beta for which equality holds. This is proposed as an improvement of the paper's preceding bound; the supplied source gives no resolution status.

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Mark Meyer, “A sharp p-subadditive bound for the l_p Hausdorff distance from convex hull”, arXiv:2604.20387 (2026).

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