Unique Determination of Convex Polytopes by Non-central Sections
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A question of Barker and Larman asks whether convex bodies that contain a sphere of radius t in their interiors are uniquely determined by the volumes of sections by hyperplanes tangent to the sphere. We affirmatively solve this problem for convex polytopes.
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