Classical topics in discrete geometry

DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-0600-7zbMath1207.52001MaRDI QIDQ986134

Publication date: 11 August 2010

Published in: CMS Books in Mathematics/Ouvrages de Mathématiques de la SMC (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0600-7

zbMATH Keywords

illumination; discrete geometry; sphere packing; Kneser-Poulsen conjecture; packing of convex bodies; ball polyhedra; ball polytopes; covering of convex bodies; plank theorem; X-ray number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

52A38: Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry)

52C17: Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry)

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

52B70: Polyhedral manifolds

52-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to convex and discrete geometry

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