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Some remarks on tight hypersurfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Leslie Coghlan
Leslie Coghlan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

We study the outer part of tight hypersurfaces. We explore in detail how the outer part of such hypersurfaces for n ≧ 3 is more complicated than in the case of tight surfaces in R3. We give a theorem describing tight hypersurfaces of arbitrary dimension.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 119 , Issue 3-4 , 1991 , pp. 279 - 285
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991

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