Combinatorial problems on the illumination of convex bodies

Aequationes Mathematicae

Volumn 57, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 121-152

  Martini, Horst ^a   Soltan, Valeriu ^b  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belt body; Belt polytope; Body of constant width; Centrally symmetric convex body; Cloud; Convex body; Covering by homothetic copies; Cyclic polytope; Exterior illumination by points or directions; Family of convex bodies; Gohberg Markus Hadwiger problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000679816     PISSN: 00019054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000100050074     Document Type: Review

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