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Intersection bodies and ellipsoids

Part of: General convexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Paul Goodey  and
Wolfgang Weil
Paul Goodey
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, U.S.A.
Wolfgang Weil
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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In this paper we study various classes of centrally symmetric sets in d-dimensional Euclidean space Rd. As we will see, it is appropriate to focus our attention on those sets which have interior points.

MSC classification

Secondary: 52A38: Length, area, volume
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 295 - 304
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Copyright © University College London 1995

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