Normals in a Minkowski Plane

In this paper we will establish bounds on the average number of normals through a point in a convex body in a Minkowski plane for certain classes of convex bodies. Also, a related Euler relation is discussed.     

A New Construction for Minkowski Planes

For any pseudo-ordered field F and some mappings f and g of F into itself we can construct a Minkowski plane such that one derived affine plane is a variation on W. A. Pierce's construction. Moreover, such a Minkowski plane induces nearaffine planes described by H. A. Wilbrink.     

Minkowski planes admitting automorphism groups of small type

We prove that a Minkowski plane with an automorphism group of type 5¹ is of order 5 and, if it is of type 4 or 7 it is of order 3 or 5. Received 5 January 1999.     

Curve Shortening and the Banchoff–Pohl Inequality in Symmetric Minkowski Geometries

In this paper the classical Banchoff–Pohl inequality, an isoperimetric inequality for nonsimple closed curves in the Euclidean plane, involving the square of the winding number, is generalized to symmetric Minkowski geometries. The proof uses the well-known curve shortening flow.     

一致Cantor集的Minkowski容度

该文研究了一致cantor集的Minkowski容度，并且计算出了它的上Minkowski容度和下Minkowski容度. 由此推出它的Minkowski容度是不存在的.     

关于Minkowski空间的子流形

利用Ｆｉｎｓｌｅｒ法曲率Ａ、Ｌａｎｄｓｂｅｒｇ曲率Ｌｙ、法切曲率Ｆｙ、Ｂｅｒｗａｌｄ联络Ｄ以及第二基本形式Ⅱ_ｙ，研究Ｍｉｎｋｏｗｓｋｉ空间中的子流形、子流形的旗曲率与李齐曲率．     

Converse theorem for the Minkowski inequality

Let (Ω,Σ,μ) a measure space such that 0<μ(A)<1<μ(B)<∞ for some A,B∈Σ. Under some natural conditions on the bijective functions φ,φ₁,φ₂,ψ,ψ₁,ψ₂:(0,∞)→(0,∞) we prove that if

     

Minkowski Geometric Algebra of Complex Sets

A geometric algebra of point sets in the complex plane is proposed, based on two fundamental operations: Minkowski sums and products. Although the (vector) Minkowski sum is widely known, the Minkowski product of two-dimensional sets (induced by the multiplication rule for complex numbers) has not previously attracted much attention. Many interesting applications, interpretations, and connections arise from the geometric algebra based on these operations. Minkowski products with lines and circles are intimately related to problems of wavefront reflection or refraction in geometrical optics. The Minkowski algebra is also the natural extension, to complex numbers, of interval-arithmetic methods for monitoring propagation of errors or uncertainties in real-number computations. The Minkowski sums and products offer basic 'shape operators' for applications such as computer-aided design and mathematical morphology, and may also prove useful in other contexts where complex variables play a fundamental role – Fourier analysis, conformal mapping, stability of control systems, etc.     

Inequalities for Volumes of Simplices in Terms of Their Faces

By generalizing some well-known results, we first obtain an inequality involving the volume and product of s-contents of s-faces of an n-simplex. Using this we generalize two inequalities maximizing the volume of one or two simplices in terms of their edge lengths.     

Finite Minkowski planes and embedded inversive planes

We show that each known finite Minkowski plane of order even, contains embedded Miquelian inversive planes, (cf. Proposition 1). Received 2 July 1999.     

Computation of Minkowski Values of Polynomials over Complex Sets

As a generalization of Minkowski sums, products, powers, and roots of complex sets, we consider the Minkowski value of a given polynomial P over a complex set X. Given any polynomial P(z) with prescribed coefficients in the complex variable z, the Minkowski value P(X) is defined to be the set of all complex values generated by evaluating P, through a specific algorithm, in such a manner that each instance of z in this algorithm varies independently over X. The specification of a particular algorithm is necessary, since Minkowski sums and products do not obey the distributive law, and hence different algorithms yield different Minkowski value sets P(X). When P is of degree n and X is a circular disk in the complex plane we study, as canonical cases, the Minkowski monomial value P _m (X), for which the monomial terms are evaluated separately (incurring n(n+1) independent values of z) and summed; the Minkowski factor value P _f (X), where P is represented as the product (z–r ₁)(z–r _n ) of n linear factors – each incurring an independent choice zX – and r ₁,...,r _n are the roots of P(z); and the Minkowski Horner value P _h (X), where the evaluation is performed by nested multiplication and incurs n independent values zX. A new algorithm for the evaluation of P _h (X), when 0X, is presented.     

Boundary evaluation algorithms for Minkowski combinations of complex sets using topological analysis of implicit curves

Minkowski geometric algebra is concerned with sets in the complex plane that are generated by algebraic combinations of complex values varying independently over given sets in ℂ. This algebra provides an extension of real interval arithmetic to sets of complex numbers, and has applications in computer graphics and image analysis, geometrical optics, and dynamical stability analysis. Algorithms to compute the boundaries of Minkowski sets usually invoke redundant segmentations of the operand-set boundaries, guided by a “matching” criterion. This generates a superset of the true Minkowski set boundary, which must be extracted by the laborious process of identifying and culling interior edges, and properly organizing the remaining edges. We propose a new approach, whereby the matching condition is regarded as an implicit curve in the space ℝⁿ whose coordinates are boundary parameters for the n given sets. Analysis of the topological configuration of this curve facilitates the identification of sets of segments on the operand boundaries that generate boundary segments of the Minkowski set, and rejection of certain sets that satisfy the matching criterion but yield only interior edges. Geometrical relations between the operand set boundaries and the implicit curve in ℝⁿ are derived, and the use of the method in the context of Minkowski sums, products, planar swept volumes, and Horner terms is described.     

The logarithmic Minkowski inequality for non-symmetric convex bodies

We validate the conjectured logarithmic Minkowski inequality, and thus the equivalent logarithmic Brunn–Minkowski inequality, in some particular cases and we prove some variants of the logarithmic Minkowski inequality for general convex bodies without the symmetry assumption. An application of one of these variants is shown.     

The Minkowski problem for polytopes

The traditional solution to the Minkowski problem for polytopes involves two steps. First, the existence of a polytope satisfying given boundary data is demonstrated. In the second step, the uniqueness of that polytope (up to translation) is then shown to follow from the equality conditions of Minkowski's inequality, a generalized isoperimetric inequality for mixed volumes that is typically proved in a separate context. In this article we adapt the classical argument to prove both the existence theorem of Minkowski and his mixed volume inequality simultaneously, thereby providing a new proof of Minkowski's inequality that demonstrates the equiprimordial relationship between these two fundamental theorems of convex geometry.     

Cauchy-Riemann equations in Minkowski plane

The properties of the symmetry and ordering of Minkowski plane are discussed by using hyperbolic imaginary unit and elliptic imaginary unit of Clifford algebra, and the representations of Cauchy-Riemann equations are given in Minkowski plane.     

Minkowski空间中保高斯映射的共形形变

设Ｍｎ为Ｒｉｅｍａｎｎ流形，给定类空浸入：Ｍｎ→Ｒｎ，ｐ，如果存在另一个类空浸入：Ｍｎ→Ｒｎ，ｐ，使与在共形对应之下且对应点的地空间平行，则称类空子流形是可保高斯映射共形形变的．本文给出可保高斯映射共形形变的充要条件．对ｎ＝２，ｐ＝１的情形，如果上述形变是同向的，我们分类了曲面；如果是反向的，我们用主曲率满足的方程来描述．     

Hlder不等式和Minkowski不等式的推广

本文利用变分方法对多个变元的不含变元导数的Holder不等式和Minkowski不等式进行了推广．此种方法的主要意义不在于证明传统的不等式，而在于发现新的不等式．