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    In geometry, the Minkowski sum of two sets of position vectors A and B in Euclidean space is formed by adding each vector in A to each vector in B: A...
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    hulls of Minkowski sumsets in its "Chapter 3 Minkowski addition" (pages 126–196): Schneider, Rolf (1993). Convex bodies: The Brunn–Minkowski theory. Encyclopedia...
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    Hermann Minkowski Abraham–Minkowski controversy Brunn–Minkowski theorem Hasse–Minkowski theorem Hermite–Minkowski theorem Minkowski addition Minkowski (crater)...
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    Shapley–Folkman lemma is a result in convex geometry that describes the Minkowski addition of sets in a vector space. The lemma may be intuitively understood...
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  • diagram Minkowski distance Minkowski functional Minkowski inequality Minkowski space Null vector (Minkowski space) Minkowski plane Minkowski's theorem...
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  • Minkowski (1864 - 1909), German mathematician: Brunn–Minkowski theorem Hasse–Minkowski theorem Hermite–Minkowski theorem Minkowski addition Minkowski...
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    c+v}\right).} The cosmos of special relativity consists of Minkowski spacetime and the addition of velocities corresponds to composition of Lorentz transformations...
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  • natural geometric operations, like scaling, translation, rotation and Minkowski addition. Due to these properties, the support function is one of the most...
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    In physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/) is the main mathematical description of spacetime in the absence of gravitation...
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  • a shift-invariant (translation invariant) operator, equivalent to Minkowski addition. A binary image is viewed in mathematical morphology as a subset of...
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  • n-dimensional Lebesgue measure and the + on the left-hand side denotes Minkowski addition. In general, no reverse bound is possible, since one can find convex...
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    the sense of distributions, and + {\displaystyle +} indicates their Minkowski addition. The basic application of mollifiers is to prove that properties valid...
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  • sum, an operation considered a kind of addition for matrices Matrix addition, in linear algebra Minkowski addition, a sum of two subsets of a vector space...
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    In fractal geometry, the Minkowski–Bouligand dimension, also known as Minkowski dimension or box-counting dimension, is a way of determining the fractal...
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  • geometry with applications in mathematical economics that describes the Minkowski addition of sets in a vector space Shephard's problem - a geometrical question...
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  • In mathematics, the Brunn–Minkowski theorem (or Brunn–Minkowski inequality) is an inequality relating the volumes (or more generally Lebesgue measures)...
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  • midpoints of the spheres. The plus sign in the formula refers to Minkowski addition of sets, so that V ( C n + K ) {\displaystyle V(C_{n}+K)} refers to...
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    support functions. This operation extends Minkowski addition of convex bodies and is analogous to Minkowski addition in multiple ways. It can be used to characterize...
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    shift-invariant (translation invariant) operators strongly related to Minkowski addition. Let E be a Euclidean space or an integer grid, and A a binary image...
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  • Dvoretzky's theorem Concentration of measure Brunn–Minkowski inequality Minkowski addition von Neumann, John (1942). "Approximative properties of matrices of...
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    In mathematics, Minkowski's theorem is the statement that every convex set in R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} which is symmetric with respect to...
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    Lorentz transformation and special theory of relativity. In 1908, Hermann Minkowski presented a geometric interpretation of special relativity that fused...
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    a rotation-free Lorentz transformation is called a Lorentz boost. In Minkowski space—the mathematical model of spacetime in special relativity—the Lorentz...
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  • person.) Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician – Minkowski addition, Minkowski inequality, Minkowski space, Minkowski diagram, Minkowski's theorem. Minos...
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  • symmetric (a zonogon). Any zonohedron may equivalently be described as the Minkowski sum of a set of line segments in three-dimensional space, or as a three-dimensional...
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    The Hasse–Minkowski theorem is a fundamental result in number theory which states that two quadratic forms over a number field are equivalent if and only...
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    Weisstein, Eric W. (1999). "Minkowski Sausage", archive.lib.msu.edu. Accessed: 21 September 2019. Pamfilos, Paris. "Minkowski Sausage", user.math.uoc.gr/~pamfilos/...
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  • the origin in a topological vector space X {\displaystyle X} then the Minkowski functional of U , {\displaystyle U,} p U : X → [ 0 , ∞ ) , {\displaystyle...
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    temporally, but rather are known relative to the motion of an observer. Minkowski space first approximates the universe without gravity; the pseudo-Riemannian...
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  • In the geometry of convex polytopes, the Minkowski problem for polytopes concerns the specification of the shape of a polytope by the directions and measures...
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