Integral geometry of tame sets (Q1590673)

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    Integral geometry of tame sets (English)
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    9 April 2003
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    Curvature measures on certain tame Whitney-stratified sets are defined as coefficients of modified volume-growth polynomials. Stratified Morse theory yields alternative descriptions of these curvature measures for tame (possibly highly singular) sets. From this we obtain a generalized Gauss-Bonnet formula and various kinematic formulas. Finally, for O-minimal sets it is shown that curvature measures only depend on the inner metric.
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    integral geometry
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    tame stratifications
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    generalized Gauss-Bonnet formula
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    kinematic formulas
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