Packing Convex Bodies by Cylinders

نویسندگان

  • Károly Bezdek
  • Alexander E. Litvak
چکیده

In [BL] in relation to the unsolved Bang’s plank problem (1951) we obtained a lower bound for the sum of relevant measures of cylinders covering a given d-dimensional convex body. In this paper we provide the packing counterpart of these estimates. We also extend bounds to the case of r-fold covering and packing and show a packing analog of Falconer’s results ([Fa]).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry

دوره 55  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016