ON A PROBLEM OF A. PLEIJEL This paper describes the Cheng-Pleijel points of a closed convex body in Euclidean space. An integrability condition depending only on the curvature and support function is derived which describe the points completely. Reference: Geom. Dedicata,44, 1992,pp. 139-145.
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