The generic contact of convex bodies with circumscribed homothets of a convex surface (Q1182995)

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The generic contact of convex bodies with circumscribed homothets of a convex surface
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    The generic contact of convex bodies with circumscribed homothets of a convex surface (English)
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    28 June 1992
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    Let \(\mathcal C\) be the space of convex bodies in \(E^ d\). Let \(\mathcal S\) be the set of all surfaces directly homothetic to a smooth and strictly convex surface in \(E^ d\). For a given convex body \(C\), the surface \(S(C)\in {\mathcal S}\), whose convex hull includes \(C\) and has minimal volume, known to be unique, is said to be \(\mathcal S\)-circumscribed about \(C\). Theorem: Most convex bodies \(C\) in \(\mathcal C\) have precisely \(d+1\) points in common with the \(\mathcal S\)-circumscribed surface of \(C\). These points form an irreducible subset of \(S(C)\).
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    convex hull
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    Baire categories
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    Hausdorff metric
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    irreducible subsets
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