An extremal property of simplices
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Abstract:
It is shown that the class of n-dimensional simplices is an extremal for the problem of maximizing the volume of the minimum circumscribing cylinder to an n-dimensional convex body of unit volume.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1971 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (1971), 556-560
- MSC: Primary 52.40
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1971-0284916-7
- MathSciNet review: 0284916