On bodies with planar symmetric projections.
Presenter
July 31, 2026
Abstract
This is a joint work with Christos Saroglou and Serhii Myroshnychenko.
Let $n\ge 3$ and let \(K\subset\mathbb R^n\) be a convex body. For a two-dimensional linear subspace
\(P\subset\mathbb R^n\), let \(K|P\) be the orthogonal projection of \(K\) onto \(P\).
We prove that if for every two-dimensional subspace \(P\), the planar
convex body \(K|P\) has \(q\)-fold rotational symmetry up to translation, then
for \(q\ge4\), this forces \(K\) to be an Euclidean ball. The case
\(q=3\) is exceptional: non-spherical examples exist.