• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.241-250
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• 2008

In this article, we find a counter example which shows that the well-known necessary condition about the boundary regularity of a stable strictly convex body is not a sufficient condition.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.905-913
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• 2023

Suppose that M is a strictly convex hypersurface in the (n + 1)-dimensional Euclidean space 𝔼ⁿ⁺¹ with the origin o in its convex side and with the outward unit normal N. For a fixed point p ∈ M and a positive constant t, we put 𝚽_t the hyperplane parallel to the tangent hyperplane 𝚽 at p and passing through the point q = p - tN(p). We consider the region cut from M by the parallel hyperplane 𝚽_t, and denote by I_p(t) the (n + 1)-dimensional volume of the convex hull of the region and the origin o. Then Schneider's characterization theorem for ellipsoids states that among centrally symmetric, strictly convex and closed surfaces in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space 𝔼³, the ellipsoids are the only ones satisfying I_p(t) = 𝜙(p)t, where 𝜙 is a function defined on M. Recently, the characterization theorem was extended to centrally symmetric, strictly convex and closed hypersurfaces in 𝔼ⁿ⁺¹ satisfying for a constant 𝛽, I_p(t) = 𝜙(p)t^𝛽. In this paper, we study the volume I_p(t) of a strictly convex and complete hypersurface in 𝔼ⁿ⁺¹ with the origin o in its convex side. As a result, first of all we extend the characterization theorem to strictly convex and closed (not necessarily centrally symmetric) hypersurfaces in 𝔼ⁿ⁺¹ satisfying I_p(t) = 𝜙(p)t^𝛽. After that we generalize the characterization theorem to strictly convex and complete (not necessarily closed) hypersurfaces in 𝔼ⁿ⁺¹ satisfying I_p(t) = 𝜙(p)t^𝛽.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.41-52
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• 2015

It is well known that the area U of the triangle formed by three tangents to a parabola X is half of the area T of the triangle formed by joining their points of contact. Recently, it was proved that this property is a characteristic one of parabolas. That is, among strictly locally convex $C^{(3)}$ curves in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ parabolas are the only ones satisfying the above area property. In this article, we study strictly locally convex curves in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$. As a result, generalizing the above mentioned characterization theorem for parabolas we present some conditions which are necessary and sufficient for a strictly locally convex $C^{(3)}$ curve in the plane to be an open part of a parabola.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.583-595
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• 2016

Archimedes showed that for a point P on a parabola X and a chord AB of X parallel to the tangent of X at P, the area S of the region bounded by the parabola X and chord AB is four thirds of the area T of triangle ${\Delta}ABP$. It is well known that the area U formed by three tangents to a parabola is half of the area T of the triangle formed by joining their points of contact. Recently, the first and third authors of the present paper and others proved that among strictly locally convex curves in the plane ${\mathbb{R}}^2$, these two properties are characteristic ones of parabolas. In this article, in order to generalize the above mentioned property $S={\frac{4}{3}}T$ for parabolas we study strictly locally convex curves in the plane ${\mathbb{R}}^2$ satisfying $S={\lambda}T+{\nu}U$, where ${\lambda}$ and ${\nu}$ are some functions on the curves. As a result, we present two conditions which are necessary and sufficient for a strictly locally convex curve in the plane to be an open arc of a parabola.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.3_4
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• pp.715-723
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• 2009

The aim of this paper is to present an explicit iteration method for finding a common fixed point of a finite family of strictly pseudocon-tractive mappings defined on q-uniformly smooth and uniformly convex Banach spaces.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.801-815
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• 2021

Ellipses have a lot of interesting geometric properties. It is quite natural to ask whether such properties of ellipses and some related ones characterize ellipses. In this paper, we study some chord properties and area properties of ellipses. As a result, using the curvature and the support function of a strictly convex curve, we establish four characterization theorems of ellipses and hyperbolas centered at the origin.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.407-417
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• 2022

Archimedes proved that for a point P on a parabola X and a chord AB of X parallel to the tangent of X at P, the area of the region bounded by the parabola X and the chord AB is four thirds of the area of the triangle ∆ABP. This property was proved to be a characteristic of parabolas, so called the Archimedean characterization of parabolas. In this article, we study strictly convex curves in the plane ℝ². As a result, first using a functional equation we establish a characterization theorem for quadrics. With the help of this characterization we give another proof of the Archimedean characterization of parabolas. Finally, we present two related conditions which are necessary and sufficient for a strictly convex curve in the plane to be an open arc of a parabola.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.485-498
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• 2005

In this article we show that every quasi-homogeneous convex affine domain whose boundary is everywhere differentiable except possibly at a finite number of points is either homogeneous or covers a compact affine manifold. Actually we show that such a domain must be a non-elliptic strictly convex cone if it is not homogeneous.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 1984

The notion of linear 2-normed spaces was introduced by S. Gahler ([8,9,10,11]), and these space have been extensively studied by C. Diminnie, R. Ehret, S. Gahler, K. Iseki, A. White, Jr, and others. For nonzero vectors x,y in X, let V(x,y) denote the subspace of X generated by x and y. A linear 2-normed space (X,v) is said to be strictly convex ([3]) if v(x+y,z)=v(x,z)+v(y+z) and z not.mem.V(x,y) imply that y=ax for some a>0. Some characterizations of strict convexity for linear 2-normed spaces are given in [1,3,4,5,12]. Also, a linear 2-normed space (X,v) is said to be strictly 2-convex ([6]) if v(x,y)=v(x,z)=v(y,z)=1/3v(x+z, y+z)=1 implies that z=x+y. These space have been studied in [2,4,6,13]. It is easy to see that every strictly convex linear 2-normed space is always strictly 2-convex but the converse is not necessarily true. Throughout this paper, let (X,v) denote a linear 2-normed space.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.55 no.2
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• pp.473-484
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• 2015

Archimedes determined the center of gravity of a parabolic section as follows. For a parabolic section between a parabola and any chord AB on the parabola, let us denote by P the point on the parabola where the tangent is parallel to AB and by V the point where the line through P parallel to the axis of the parabola meets the chord AB. Then the center G of gravity of the section lies on PV called the axis of the parabolic section with $PG=\frac{3}{5}PV$. In this paper, we study strictly locally convex plane curves satisfying the above center of gravity properties. As a result, we prove that among strictly locally convex plane curves, those properties characterize parabolas.