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Sets Homothetic to their Intersection with a Translate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. B. Wilker
J. B. Wilker*
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University of Toronto
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Inspired by a question of J. B. Miller, L. Fejes Tóth asked for a catalogue of those subsets of Euclidean n-space which are homothetic (similar and similarly situated) to their intersection with a suitably translated copy of themselves. For example, a triangle is homothetic to its intersection with an arbitrarily translated replica provided only that the intersection has non-void interior. In 3-space a cube is homothetic to its intersection with a replica translated part way along any body diagonal. With these two preliminary examples for motivation, let us make a definition.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , 01 December 1975 , pp. 739 - 748
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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