Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4668281 Advances in Mathematics 2006 21 Pages PDF
Abstract

In 1926 Nakajima (= Matsumura) showed that any convex body in R3 with constant width, constant brightness, and boundary of class C2 is a ball. We show that the regularity assumption on the boundary is unnecessary, so that balls are the only convex bodies of constant width and brightness.

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