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It is clear that this is true for a sphere, but cutting of a spherical cap from the sphere leaves the intersection points with the planes the same, but now there is a unique shortest path through this new flat area.

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Of course you can make thethis object strictly convex, differentiable etc. by smoothing out the cut.

No.

It is clear that this is true for a sphere, but cutting of a spherical cap from the sphere leaves the intersection points with the planes the same, but now there is a unique shortest path through this new flat area.

$\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\quad$

Of course you can make the object differentiable etc. by smoothing out the cut.

No.

It is clear that this is true for a sphere, but cutting of a spherical cap from the sphere leaves the intersection points with the planes the same, but now there is a unique shortest path through this new flat area.

$\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\quad$

Of course you can make this object strictly convex, differentiable etc. by smoothing out the cut.

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M. Winter
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No.

It is clear that this is true for a sphere, but cutting of a spherical cap from the sphere leaves the intersection points with the planes the same, but now there is a unique shortest path through this new flat area.

$\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\quad$

Of course you can make the object differentiable etc. by smoothing out the cut.