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Small distances in convex polygons

Filip Moric
2013
Journal paper
Abstract

Let d(1) < d(2) < ... denote the set of all distances between two vertices of a convex n-gon. We show that the number of pairs of vertices at distance d(2) from one another is at most n + O(1). (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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