Exact frontier range of rounded support curves #
This file proves the reverse inclusion missing from the global support-curve calculus: every frontier point of a bounded rounded support envelope is hit by the support curve. The key local fact is that an active support inequality recovers both normal and tangent coordinates of the contact point.
If a point of a smooth support envelope activates the inequality in
direction theta, then it is the corresponding support-curve point.
If every support inequality is strict for a continuous periodic support function, then the point lies in the open support envelope.
Every frontier point of a continuous periodic support envelope activates at least one of its defining support inequalities.
For a smooth periodic support function, every frontier point of its open support envelope is hit by the support curve.
The rounded positive-curvature support curve has exactly the frontier of its open support envelope as its range.
The rounded support curve parametrizes its whole frontier already on the
standard half-open interval [0, 2 * pi).