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Simple valuations on convex bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Rolf Schneider
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Albertstr. 23 b, D-79104 Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
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Abstract

We determine all continuous translation invariant simple valuations on the space of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space.

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Copyright © University College London 1996

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