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Nandakumar R
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On the moment of inertia of planar convex regions and possible special nature of circular disks

We consider uniform convex planar regions and lines through their center of mass and lying in the same plane as the region; each line is parametrized by an angle $\alpha$ it makes with some reference direction in that same plane.

Are there uniformly dense convex planar regions other than the circular disk with the property: the region has equal moment of inertia about every line through the center of mass and lying within a finite range of values of $\alpha$? For the circular disk, this range is obviously, the full [0,2$\pi$].

And what could be said about other moments?

Nandakumar R
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