Smoothness and geometry of boundaries associated to skeletal structures, II: Geometry in the Blum case

Compositio Mathematica

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1657-1674

  Damon, James ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Blum medial axis; Distortion operator; Radial flow; Radial shape operator; Skeletal structures; Whitney stratified sets

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144464551     PISSN: 0010437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1112/S0010437X04000570     Document Type: Article

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