Revisiting floating bodies

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• 作者：Ó ; scar Ciaurri ; ^{oscar.ciaurri@unirioja.es} ; Emilio Ferná ; ndez ^{eferna35@gmail.com} ; Luz Roncal ^{luz.roncal@unirioja.es}
• 关键词：primary ; 51-02 ; secondary ; 34A05 ; 35A09
• 刊名：Expositiones Mathematicae
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：34
• 期：4
• 页码：396-422
• 全文大小：1309 K
• 卷排序：34

文摘

The conic sections, as well as the solids obtained by revolving these curves, and many of their surprising properties, were already studied by Greek mathematicians since at least the fourth century B.C. Some of these properties come to the light, or are rediscovered, from time to time. In this paper we characterize the conic sections as the plane curves whose tangent lines cut off from a certain similar curve segments of constant area. We also characterize some quadrics as the surfaces whose tangent planes cut off from a certain similar surface compact sets of constant volume. Our work is developed in the most general multidimensional case.