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Tchebychev nets on spheres


Author: Sandra Lee Samelson
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 49 (1991), 11-18
MSC: Primary 53A15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1096228
MathSciNet review: MR1096228
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Abstract: We show that the standard sphere on $\mathbb {R}{^3}$ admits a Tchebychev net which covers an open subset of the sphere which contains a closed hemisphere.


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