Ellipsoids and elliptic hyperboloids in the Euclidean space ${\Bbb E}^{n+1}$

Abstract

We establish some characterizations of elliptic hyperboloids (resp., ellipsoids) in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space ${\Bbb E}^{n+1}$, using the $n$-dimensional area of the sections cut off by hyperplanes and the $(n+1)$-dimensional volume of regions between parallel hyperplanes. We also give a few characterizations of elliptic paraboloids in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space ${\Bbb E}^{n+1}$.