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Consider a geometric body which casts a shadow of constant area when illuminated by parallel rays from an arbitrary direction. Can one infer that the body is a sphere?
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Kirillov, A.A. (1976). Compact Groups. In: Elements of the Theory of Representations. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 220. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66243-0_17
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