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We deal with integrals of invariant measures of pairs of planes in euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^3$ as considered by Hug and Schneider. In this paper we express some of these integrals in terms of functions of the visual angle of a convex set. As a consequence of our results we evaluate the deficit in a Crofton-type inequality due to Blashcke., Comment: 16 pages

In this paper we deal with a general type of integral formulas of the visual angle, among them those of Crofton, Hurwitz and Masotti, from the point of view of Integral Geometry. The purpose is twofold: to provide an interpretation of these formulas in terms of integrals of densities with respect to the canonical measure in the space of pairs of lines and to give new simpler proofs of them.

Given a simple closed plane curve $\Gamma$ of length $L$ enclosing a compact convex set $K$ of area $F$, Hurwitz found an upper bound for the isoperimetric deficit, namely $L^2-4\pi F\leq \pi |F_{e}|$, where $F_{e}$ is the algebraic area enclosed by the evolute of $\Gamma$. In this note we improve this inequality finding strictly positive lower bounds for the deficit $\pi|F_{e}|-\Delta$, where $\Delta=L^{2}-4\pi F$. These bounds involve wether the visual angle of $\Gamma$ or the pedal curve associated to $K$ with respect to the Steiner point of $K$ or the $\mathcal{L}^{2}$ distance between $K$ and the Steiner disk of $K$. For each established inequality we study when equality holds. This occurs for those compact convex sets being bounded by a curve parallel to an hypocycloid of $3, 4$ or $5$ cusps or the Minkowski sum of this kind of sets., Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures

We compute the measure with multiplicity of the set of complex planes intersecting a compact domain in a complex space form. The result is given in terms of the so-called hermitian intrinsic volumes. Moreover, we obtain two different versions for the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern formula in complex space forms. One of them gives the Gauss curvature integral in terms of the Euler characteristic, and some hermitian intrinsic volumes. The other one, which is shorter, involves the measure of complex hyperplanes meeting the domain. As a tool, we obtain variation formulas in integral geometry of complex space forms., Comment: 24 pages, to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics