The covariogram determines three-dimensional convex polytopes

The cross covariogram g_{K,L} of two convex sets K, L in R^n is the function which associates to each x in R^n the volume of the intersection of K with L+x. The two main results of this paper are that g_{K,K} determines three-dimensional convex polytopes K and that g_{K,L} determines both K and L when K and L are convex polyhedral cones satisfying certain assumptions. These results settle a conjecture of G. Matheron in the class of convex polytopes. Further results regard the known counterexamples in dimension n>=4. We also introduce and study the notion of synisothetic polytopes. This concept is related to the rearrangement of the faces of a convex polytope.