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A characterisation of the ellipsoid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

P. W. Aitchison
P. W. Aitchison
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Australian National UniversityCanberra
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The ellipsoid is characterised among all convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space, Rn, by many different properties. In this paper we give a characterisation which generalizes a number of previous results mentioned in [2], p. 142. The major result will be used, in a paper yet to be published, to prove some results concerning generalizations of the Minkowski theory of reduction of positive definite quadratic forms.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , November 1970 , pp. 385 - 394
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1970

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