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Approximations by polytopes with projectively regular facets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

G. C. Shephard
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. and University of Birmingham, England
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It is well known that every convex polytope in d-dimensional euclidean space Ed can be approximated arbitrarily closely, in the Hausdorff sense, by convex polytopes whose faces are simplexes (see [2, Section 4.5]). In this paper we prove some generalizations of this result, investigating the possibility of approximating a given d-polytope (d-dimensional convex polytope) by polytopes whose facets (faces of d − 1 dimensions) are all of some prescribed type.

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Copyright © University College London 1966

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