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Determination of convex bodies by their brightness functions
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General convexity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2010
Abstract
It is shown that a convex body is determined uniquely among all convex bodies by the volumes of its projections onto all hyperplanes through the origin if and only if it is a parallelotope.
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