Equiaffine inner parallel curves of a plane convex body and the convex hulls of randomly chosen points

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 385-415

  Buchta, Christian ^a   Reitzner, Matthias ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 0031185117     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004400050114     Document Type: Article

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