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The Steiner point of a closed hypersurface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Harley Flanders
Harley Flanders
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University College, London
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Let C be a compact convex set in En, not necessarily containing interior points. The Steiner point of K has been defined (see Shephard [6]) as

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Mathematika , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1966, pp. 181 - 188
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Copyright © University College London 1966

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