Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
We answer a question of David Larman, by proving the following result. Any four unit balls in three-dimensional space, whose centers are not collinear, have at most twelve common tangent lines. This bound is tight. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2001 | 10.1007/s004540010090 | Discrete & Computational Geometry |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
computational geometry,balls,enumerative geometry,. tangents | Journal | 26 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
1 | 0179-5376 | 21 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
2.05 | 2 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| I. G. Macdonald | 1 | 21 | 2.05 |
| János Pach | 2 | 451 | 49.34 |
| Thorsten Theobald | 3 | 136 | 19.12 |