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Any 2-Sphere in E3 with Uniform Interior Tangent Balls is Flat
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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This paper addresses some flatness properties of an (n – 1)-sphere Σ in Euclidean n-space En resulting from the presence of round balls in En tangent to Σ. The notion of tangency used here is geometric rather than differentiable, for a round n-cell Bp (that is, the set of points whose distance, in the standard metric, from some center point is less than or equal to a fixed positive number) is said to be tangent to the (n – 1)-sphere Σ in En at a point p ∈ Σ if p ∈ Bp and Int Bp ⊂ Σ = ∅. The ball Bp is called an interior tangent ball at p if Int Bp ⊂ Int Σ; otherwise, it is called an exterior tangent ball at p.
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