Consider a convex plane curve with perimeter
, and the set of points
exterior to
. Further, let
and
be the perpendicular distances from
to
(with corresponding tangent points
and
on
), and let
. Then
(1)
|
(Crofton 1885; Solomon 1978, p. 28).
If
has a continuous radius of curvature and the
radii of curvature at points
and
are
and
, then
(2)
|
(Solomon 1978, p. 28), and furthermore
(3)
|
(Santaló 1953; Solomon 1978, p. 28).