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Convex bodies with almost all k-dimensional sections polytopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Leoni Dalla
Affiliation:
University College, London
D. G. Larman
Affiliation:
University College, London

Extract

It is a well-known result of V. L. Klee (2) that if a convex body K in En has all its k-dimensional sections as polytopes (k ≥ 2) then K is a polytope.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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