Lines tangent to four unit spheres with coplanar centres

G. Megyesi

Lines tangent to four unit spheres with coplanar centres

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Abstract

We prove that there are at most eight lines tangent to four unit spheres in ℝ3 if the centres of the spheres are coplanar, but not collinear. This bound is sharp.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	493-497
Number of pages	4
Journal	Discrete & Computational Geometry
Volume	26
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - Dec 2001

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Lines tangent to four unit spheres with coplanar centres

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