Navigating Around Convex Sets

DOI10.1080/00029890.2020.1743596zbMATH Open1441.52003arXiv1906.07281OpenAlexW3027633221MaRDI QIDQ5111075FDOQ5111075

J. J. P. Veerman

Publication date: 26 May 2020

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review some basic results of convex analysis and geometry in $mathbb{R}^n$ in the context of formulating a differential equation to track the distance between an observer flying outside a convex set $K$ and $K$ itself.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07281

zbMATH Keywords

convex setsdistance to a convex body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15)

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