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Gruber P. Convex and Discrete Geometry

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558 INDEX<br />

Bravais classification of lattices, 358<br />

Bruggesser-Mani shelling theorem, 266<br />

Brunn’s idea, 142<br />

Brunn–Minkowski inequality, 142, 176<br />

Busemann-Petty problem, 124<br />

capillary volume, 157<br />

Carathéodory’s theorem, 43, 47<br />

Cauchy’s<br />

arm lemma, 293<br />

combinatorial lemma, 295<br />

functional equation, 16, 126<br />

rigidity theorem, 293<br />

surface area formula, 106<br />

caustic, 201<br />

cells of a (generalized) polyhedral<br />

complex, 468<br />

central symmetral, 185<br />

central symmetrization, 443<br />

centrepoint, 50<br />

Choquet simplex, 220<br />

Choquet’s theorem on vector lattices,<br />

221<br />

chordal metric, 165<br />

Christoffel’s problem, 197<br />

circle problem of Gauß, 410<br />

circumball, 49<br />

circumradius, 169<br />

circumscribable polytope, 272<br />

clamped membrane, 182<br />

closed convex surface, 187<br />

closed sub-groups of E d , 361<br />

co-atom, 256<br />

co-atomic lattice, 256<br />

code<br />

-book, 497<br />

-vector, 497<br />

-word, 427, 497<br />

coefficient matrix of a quadratic form,<br />

431<br />

coefficient vector of a quadratic form,<br />

431<br />

combinatorial type of a polytope, 278<br />

combinatorially equivalent polytopes,<br />

274<br />

complemented lattice, 256<br />

complete graph, 274<br />

complex of a polytope, 266<br />

concave function, 3<br />

cone of positive quadratic forms, 431<br />

conjecture of<br />

Gersho, 492<br />

Keller on cube tiling, 480<br />

Kepler, 423<br />

Mahler, 177<br />

Minkowski, 385<br />

Minkowski on cube tiling, 479<br />

Rayleigh, 183<br />

Voronoĭ on parallelohedra, 478<br />

Zassenhaus on covering, 463<br />

Zassenhaus on packing, 454<br />

conjecture on<br />

inhomogeneous linear forms, 405<br />

connected graph, 261<br />

Connelly’s sphere, 297<br />

control of an initial-value problem, 64<br />

convergent sequence of lattices, 392<br />

Convering<br />

Criterion of Wills, 457<br />

converse of Euler’s polytope formula,<br />

264<br />

convex<br />

body, 41<br />

combination, 42<br />

cone, 45, 82<br />

cone generated by a set, 46<br />

function, 2<br />

hull, 42<br />

polytope, 245<br />

set, 2, 41<br />

tiling, 464<br />

convexity criterion of Brunn–Hadamard,<br />

32<br />

cosine transform, 129<br />

country of a graph, 262<br />

Courant–Hilbert’s sufficient condition,<br />

36<br />

covering<br />

by translates, 455<br />

lattice, 380, 455

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