Mathematics – Metric Geometry
Scientific paper
2008-05-12
Adv. Math. 220 (2009), 1771--1808
Mathematics
Metric Geometry
32 pages, 3 figures, major revision with respect to version previously sent by email to some colleagues
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.aim.2008.11.011
The cross covariogram g_{K,L} of two convex sets K, L in R^n is the function which associates to each x in R^n the volume of the intersection of K with L+x. The problem of determining the sets from their covariogram is relevant in stochastic geometry, in probability and it is equivalent to a particular case of the phase retrieval problem in Fourier analysis. It is also relevant for the inverse problem of determining the atomic structure of a quasicrystal from its X-ray diffraction image. The two main results of this paper are that g_{K,K} determines three-dimensional convex polytopes K and that g_{K,L} determines both K and L when K and L are convex polyhedral cones satisfying certain assumptions. These results settle a conjecture of G. Matheron in the class of convex polytopes. Further results regard the known counterexamples in dimension n>=4. We also introduce and study the notion of synisothetic polytopes. This concept is related to the rearrangement of the faces of a convex polytope.
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