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A Property of Plane Sets of Constant Width

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Z.A. Melzak
Z.A. Melzak*
Affiliation:
McGill University
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It is well known that sets of constant width share several properties with spheres. In this note we consider a simple property of the circle and we show that it is shared by every plane set of constant width. As an application we derive a stronger form of the following theorem of D. Gale, [1]: every plane set of diameter 1 is a union of three sets of diameters not exceeding √3/2, and this constant is best possible. We shall make free use of the more elementary properties of convex sets and of sets of constant width; for these properties and for the terminology see the standard reference [2], or [3].

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1963 , pp. 409 - 415
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1963

References

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