Distance to the convex hull of an orbit under the action of a compact Lie group

Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-357

  Holmes, Randall R ^a   Tam, Tin Yau ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex hull; Distance; Orbit; Reductive Lie group

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040964399     PISSN: 14467887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1446788700036648     Document Type: Article

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