Pairs of Convex Bodies with Centrally Symmetric Intersections of Translates

For a pair of convex bodies K and K ′ in Ed , the d-dimensional intersections K ∩ (x + K ′), x ∈ Ed , are centrally symmetric if and only if K and K ′ are represented as direct sums K = R ⊕ P and K ′ = R′ ⊕ P ′ such that: (i) R is a compact convex set of some dimension m, 0 ≤ m ≤ d, and R′ = z − R for a suitable vector z ∈ Ed , (ii) P and P ′ are isothetic parallelotopes, both of dimension d − m.