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Some remarks about system of balls that generate shadow at point

Metric Geometry 2017-12-05 v1

Abstract

Problems, related to the determination of the minimal number of balls that generate a shadow at a fixed point in the multi-dimensional Euclidean space Rn \mathbb{R}^n , are considered in present work. Here, the statement "a system of balls generate shadow at a point" means that any line passing through the point intersects at least one ball of the system. New properties of pairwise-disjoint balls that do not contain a fixed point inside of a sphere in space R3\mathbb{R}^3, centered on the sphere, and generate shadow at the point are established. And a system of n+1n+1 pairwise-disjoint balls with equal radii in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, n3 n\ge 3, that do not contain a fixed point of the space and generate shadow at the point is constructed in the work.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01000,
  title  = {Some remarks about system of balls that generate shadow at point},
  author = {Tetiana Osipchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01000},
  year   = {2017}
}

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