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Pinning a line by balls or ovaloids in \(\mathbb R^{3}\) (English)
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10 March 2011
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If a line transversal \(l\) to a family \(\mathcal{F}\) of compact convex sets in \(\mathbb R^d\) cannot move without missing some \(F\in \mathcal{F}\) then is said that \(\mathcal{F}\) is a pinning of the line \(l\). The authors prove the following theorem: Let \(\mathcal{F}\) be a finite family of balls in \(\mathbb R^3\) that pin a line \(l\). If no two balls are externally tangent in a point of \(l\), then a subfamily of at most 12 of these balls pins \(l\). An ovaloid is a smooth closed surface in \(\mathbb R^3\) with strictly positive Gauss curvature everywhere. In the last part of the paper the authors show that the theorem above remains true if the balls are replaced by semialgebraic ovaloids.
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geometric transversals
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Helly-type theorems
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line geometry
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ovaloids
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