Nearly all convex bodies are smooth and strictly convex (Q1085437)

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Nearly all convex bodies are smooth and strictly convex
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    Nearly all convex bodies are smooth and strictly convex (English)
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    1987
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    By an old result of \textit{V. Klee} [Math. Ann. 139, 51-63 (1959; Zbl 0092.116)], those convex bodies which are not smooth or not strictly convex form a set of first Baire category. It is proved here that they are ''even fewer'': they only form a \(\sigma\)-porous set.
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    convex bodies
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    \(\sigma \)-porous set
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