Survey Paper Combinatorial problems on the illumination of convex bodies
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This is a review of various problems and results on the illumination of convex bodies in the spirit of combinatorial geometry. The topics under review are: history of the Gohberg–Markus–Hadwiger problem on the minimum number of exterior sources illuminating a convex body, including the discussion of its equivalent forms like the minimum number of homothetic copies covering the body; generalization of this problem for the case of unbounded convex bodies; visibility and inner illumination of convex bodies; primitive illuminating systems for convex bodies; illumination and visibility of families of convex bodies; clouds formed by translates or homothetic copies of a convex body; miscellaneous results.
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