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The Steiner Point of a Convex Polytope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. C. Shephard*
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. and University of Birmingham, England
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Associated with each bounded convex set K in n-dimensional euclidean space En is a point s(K) known as its Steiner point. First considered by Steiner in 1840 (6, p. 99) in connection with an extremal problem for convex regions, this point has been found useful in some recent investigations (for example, 4) because of the linearity property

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Addition on the left is vector addition of convex sets.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1966

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