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We characterize the duality of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean vector space, viewed as a mapping from the space of convex bodies containing the origin in the interior into the same space. The question for such a characterization was posed by Vitali Milman. The property that the duality interchanges pairwise intersections and convex hulls of unions is sufficient for a characterization, up to a trivial exception and the composition with a linear transformation.
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This work was supported by the EU-project DiscConvGeo (MTKD-CT-2005-014333). The first author was supported by OTKA grant 049301.
Received: March 2007, Accepted: April 2007
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Böröczky, K.J., Schneider, R. A characterization of the duality mapping for convex bodies. GAFA Geom. funct. anal. 18, 657–667 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-008-0676-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-008-0676-5