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A theorem on convex kernels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Victor Klee
Victor Klee
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University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
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For a subset S of a real linear space, let ck S denote the set of all points from which S is starshaped; that is p∈ ck S if and only if S contains the segment [p, s] for all s∈ S. The set ck S, which is necessarily convex, was introduced by H. Brunn [2[ in 1913 as the Kerneigebeit or convex kernel of the set S. Of course ck S = S if and only if the set S itself is convex. L. Fejes Tóth asked for a characterization of those plane convex bodies which can be realized as the convex kernels of nonconvex plane domains, and it was proved by N. G. de Bruijn and K. Post that every plane convex body can be so realized. Here we establish a stronger result.

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Mathematika , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , June 1965 , pp. 89 - 93
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Copyright © University College London 1965

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