How to cage an egg (Q803943)

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    This paper proves that given a convex polyhedron \(P\subset {\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) and a smooth strictly convex body \(K\subset {\mathbb{R}}^ 3\), there is some convex polyhedron Q combinatorically equivalent to P which midscribes K; that is, all the edges of Q are tangent to \(\partial K\). Furthermore, with some stronger smoothness conditions on \(\partial K\), the space of all such Q is a six-dimensional differential manifold.
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    circumscribe
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    inscribe
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    midscribe
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    packing
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    circle packing
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    Cauchy Lemma
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    rigidity
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    convex polyhedron
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