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On maximal simplices inscribed in a central convex set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

James R. McKinney
Affiliation:
California State Polytechnic University Pomona, California U.S.A.
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Blaschke [1] introduced the notion of maximal tetrahedra inscribed in two and three dimensional convex sets (maximal in the sense of volume). From this notion, he derived an inequality relating the volume of such maximal tetrahedra and the volume of the convex set, and used the inequality to characterize an ellipsoid and to obtain some results concerning isoperimetric inequalities.

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Copyright © University College London 1974

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