Lines tangent to four unit spheres with coplanar centres (Q5955141)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1703260
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Lines tangent to four unit spheres with coplanar centres
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1703260

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    Lines tangent to four unit spheres with coplanar centres (English)
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    4 November 2003
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    Given four unit spheres in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) with coplanar, but not collinear centers, the paper shows that there are at most eight lines tangent to all of them. This bound is tight.
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    common tangent lines
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    unit spheres
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    spatial geometry
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    coplanar centres
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