Appollonius revisited: Supporting spheres for sundered systems

DOI10.1007/PL00009324MaRDI QIDQ1380802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Victor Klee, T. G. Lewis, Balder von Hohenbalken

Publication date 22 April 1998

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00009324

zbMATH Keywords

Appollonius problemconvex sets in \(n\) dimensionssundered systemssupporting spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20)

Review text

Let \(C\) be a ball in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) and \(S\) the sphere \(\partial C.\) One says that \(S\) supports a convex body \(B\) if \(S\) intersects \(B\) and either \(B \subseteq C\) (then \(S\) is a far support) or the interior of \(C\) is disjoint from \(B\) (then \(S\) is a near support). The focus here is on the systems \(\mathcal B\) that are sundered, meaning that the members of the system are pairwise disjoint and, for each way of choosing a point from \(d+1\) or fewer members of \(\mathcal B,\) the chosen points form the vertex-set of a \(d\)-simplex. The main theorem of the paper asserts that if spheres are Euclidean, then for each sundered system \(\mathcal B=(\mathcal B_0,\dots,\mathcal B_d)\) of \(d+1\) bodies in \(\mathbb{E}^d\) and each partition \((I,J)\) of the index set, there is a unique \(I\)-near \(J\)-far supporting sphere for \(\mathcal B\). This theorem is motivated in part by the classical problem of Appollonius, which was concerned with constructing all supporting circles for a system of three circular disks in the plane.

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