Smoothness of Minkowski sum and generic rotations

Can the Minkowski sum of two convex bodies be made smoother by rotating one of them? We construct two C∞ strictly convex plane bodies such that after any generic rotation (in the Baire category sense) of one of the summands the Minkowski sum is not C5. On the other hand, if for one of the bodies the...

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Published inJournal of mathematical analysis and applications Vol. 450; no. 2; pp. 1229 - 1244
Main Authors Belegradek, Igor, Jiang, Zixin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 15.06.2017
Subjects
Convex body
Infimal convolution
Minkowski sum
Smoothness
Sums of Cantor sets
Sums of Cantor sets
Infimal convolution
Convex body
Minkowski sum
Smoothness
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Summary:Can the Minkowski sum of two convex bodies be made smoother by rotating one of them? We construct two C∞ strictly convex plane bodies such that after any generic rotation (in the Baire category sense) of one of the summands the Minkowski sum is not C5. On the other hand, if for one of the bodies the zero set of the Gaussian curvature has countable spherical image, we show that any generic rotation makes their Minkowski sum as smooth as the summands. We also improve and clarify some previous results on smoothness of the Minkowski sum.
ISSN:0022-247X
1096-0813
DOI:10.1016/j.jmaa.2017.01.088