{"title":"On the Maximal Distance Between the Centers of Mass of a Planar Convex Body and Its Boundary","authors":"Fedor Nazarov, Dmitry Ryabogin, Vladyslav Yaskin","doi":"10.1007/s00454-024-00650-0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>We prove that the length of the projection of the vector joining the centers of mass of a convex body on the plane and of its boundary to an arbitrary direction does not exceed <span>\\(\\frac{1}{6}\\)</span> of the body width in this direction. It follows that the distance between these centers of mass does not exceed <span>\\(\\frac{1}{6}\\)</span> of the diameter of the body and <span>\\(\\frac{1}{12}\\)</span> of its boundary length. None of those constants can be improved.</p>","PeriodicalId":50574,"journal":{"name":"Discrete & Computational Geometry","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete & Computational Geometry","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-024-00650-0","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We prove that the length of the projection of the vector joining the centers of mass of a convex body on the plane and of its boundary to an arbitrary direction does not exceed \(\frac{1}{6}\) of the body width in this direction. It follows that the distance between these centers of mass does not exceed \(\frac{1}{6}\) of the diameter of the body and \(\frac{1}{12}\) of its boundary length. None of those constants can be improved.
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Discrete & Computational Geometry (DCG) is an international journal of mathematics and computer science, covering a broad range of topics in which geometry plays a fundamental role. It publishes papers on such topics as configurations and arrangements, spatial subdivision, packing, covering, and tiling, geometric complexity, polytopes, point location, geometric probability, geometric range searching, combinatorial and computational topology, probabilistic techniques in computational geometry, geometric graphs, geometry of numbers, and motion planning.