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On the Busemann-Petty problem concerning central sections of centrally symmetric convex bodies

Author(s): R. J. Gardner
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (1994), 222-226.
MSC (2000): Primary 52A38; Secondary 52A40
MathSciNet review: 1246466
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Abstract: We present a method which shows that in ${\mathbb{E}^3}$ the Busemann-Petty problem, concerning central sections of centrally symmetric convex bodies, has a positive answer. Together with other results, this settles the problem in each dimension.

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