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The Cauchy-Crofton formula and the Whitney arc property for definable sets

Logic 2010-11-09 v2

Abstract

We use the Cauchy-Crofton formula to show that every definable cell (bounded by a ball with rational radius) in an O-minimal expansion of a field extension of the real numbers satisfies the Whitney arc property.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2735,
  title  = {The Cauchy-Crofton formula and the Whitney arc property for definable sets},
  author = {Elisa Vasquez Rifo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2735},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

8 pages, This paper has been withdrawn by the author. The third sentence of the proof of Theorem 5.6 contained an error; the results are subsumed and extended by the paper "Hausdorff measure on o-minimal structures" with A. Fornasiero