Packing lines, planes, etc.: Packings in Grassmannian spaces.
Jean-Marc Richard observed in [7] that maximal perimeter of a parallelogram inscribed in a given ellipse can be realized by a parallelogram with one vertex at any prescribed point of ellipse. Alain Connes and Don Zagier gave in [4] probably the most elementary proof of this property of ellipse. Another proof can be found in [1]. In this note we prove that closed, convex curves having circles as π/2-isoptics have the similar property.
Let be a Riemann surface. Let be the -dimensional hyperbolic space and let be its ideal boundary. In our context, a Plateau problem is a locally holomorphic mapping . If is a convex immersion, and if is its exterior normal vector field, we define the Gauss lifting, , of by . Let be the Gauss-Minkowski mapping. A solution to the Plateau problem is a convex immersion of constant Gaussian curvature equal to such that the Gauss lifting is complete and . In this paper, we show...
On définit localement la notion de polyèdre de rang deux pour un polyèdre fini de dimension deux à courbure négative ou nulle. On montre que le revêtement universel d’un tel espace est soit le produit de deux arbres, soit un immeuble de Tits euclidien de rang deux.
The polynomial functions on a projective space over a field = ℝ, ℂ or ℍ come from the corresponding sphere via the Hopf fibration. The main theorem states that every polynomial function ϕ(x) of degree d is a linear combination of “elementary” functions .