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2026
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06107 |
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- A theorem of Meyer and Reisner characterizes ellipsoids by the collinearity of centroids of parallel sections: if $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is a convex body such that for every $n$-dimensional subspace $M\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ the centroids of the sections $(x+M)\cap Ω$ are collinear, then $Ω$ is an ellipsoid. We study natural extensions of this centroid-collinearity condition to unbounded convex sets. In particular, we show that among affine hyperspheres, precisely the ellipsoids, paraboloids and one sheet of a two-sheeted hyperboloid satisfy this property. We also identify additional assumptions under which any convex hypersurface with this property must necessarily be a quadric.