Illuminating spindle convex bodies and minimizing the volume of spherical sets of constant width

DOI10.1007/s00454-011-9369-1zbMath1246.52006arXiv1102.1194MaRDI QIDQ664363

Károly Bezdek

Publication date: 1 March 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1194

zbMATH Keywords

Boltyanski-Hadwiger illumination conjecture; (fat) spindle convex bodies; constant width sets in spherical space; convex bodies of constant width in spherical space; Gauss (resp., normal) images of faces; illumination by random directions; illumination conjecture; spindle convex hull

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

52A15: Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces)

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

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