On linear wavefronts of convex polyhedra
V. V. Makeeva,
I. V. Makeevb a St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
b St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract:
By a convex polyhedron we mean the intersection of a finite number of closed half-spaces in a Euclidean space whenever this intersection is bounded and has non-empty interior.
Let each hyperplane of the hyperfaces
$f_1,\dots,f_m$ of a polyhedron
$M$ in
$\mathbb R^n$ move inwards
$M$ in a self-parallel fashion at a non-negative constant speed (we assume that at least one face has non-zero speed). We thus obtain a “shrinking” polyhedron. Let $\operatorname{reg}(f_1),\dots,\operatorname{reg}(f_m)$ be the parts of
$M$ (with disjoint interiors) that the faces
$f_1,\dots,f_m$ sweep during the “shrinking” process.
The main result is as follows. Let
$F$ be a functional on the class of convex compact subsets in
$\mathbb R^n$. We assume that
$F$ is nonnegative and continuous (with respect to the Hausdorff metric), and, furthermore,
$F(K)=0$ if and only if
$\dim(K)<n$. Then for every
$m$-tuple
$(x_1,\dots,x_m)$ of nonnegative reals with non-zero sum there exists an
$m$-tuple of “speeds” for the faces
$f_1,\dots,f_m$ such that the
$m$-tuple $(F(\operatorname{reg}(f_1)),\dots,F(\operatorname{reg}(f_m)))$ is proportional to
$(x_1,\dots,x_m)$.
Key words and phrases:
linear wavefront, convex polyhedron, weighted skeleton.
UDC:
514.172 Received: 29.12.2012