This thesis deals with the inner and outer radii (width, diameter, in- and circumradius, and their generalisations) of convex bodies in Euclidean spaces, with a special focus on geometric inequalities. Typical classes of extremal convex bodies are treated and specified. Here we give an almost complete computation of the radii of regular polytopes, and an existence proof of two subclasses of bodies of constant breadth, which possess important but surprising additional properties. Also we are able to obtain several new geometric inequalities and a classification of known inequalities in essential and non-essential, by analysing a 3-dimensional Blaschke-Santaló diagram for planar convex sets for the first time which takes all four radii into account.
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This thesis deals with the inner and outer radii (width, diameter, in- and circumradius, and their generalisations) of convex bodies in Euclidean spaces, with a special focus on geometric inequalities. Typical classes of extremal convex bodies are treated and specified. Here we give an almost complete computation of the radii of regular polytopes, and an existence proof of two subclasses of bodies of constant breadth, which possess important but surprising additional properties. Also we are able...
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