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On the zone of the boundary of a convex body

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    We consider an arrangement A of n hyperplanes in R d and the zone Z in A of the boundary of an arbitrary convex set in R d in such an arrangement. We show that, whereas the combinatorial complexity of Z is known only to be O ( n d - 1 log n ) 3], the outer part of the zone has complexity O ( n d - 1 ) (without the logarithmic factor). Whether this bound also holds for the complexity of the inner part of the zone is still an open question (even for d = 2 ).

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      cover image Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
      Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications  Volume 48, Issue 4
      May 2015
      73 pages

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      Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.

      Netherlands

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      Published: 01 May 2015

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      1. Hyperplane arrangements
      2. Zone theorem

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