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The Convex Hull of a Variety

Algebraic Geometry 2010-07-02 v2 Computational Geometry

Abstract

We present a characterization, in terms of projective biduality, for the hypersurfaces appearing in the boundary of the convex hull of a compact real algebraic variety.

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@article{arxiv.1004.3018,
  title  = {The Convex Hull of a Variety},
  author = {Kristian Ranestad and Bernd Sturmfels},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3018},
  year   = {2010}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures