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Minkowski symmetrizations of star shaped sets

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We provide sharp upper bounds for the number of symmetrizations required to transform a star shaped set in \({\mathbb {R}}^n\) arbitrarily close (in the Hausdorff metric) to the Euclidean ball.

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Correspondence to A. Segal.

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A. Segal was supported by a grant from the European Research Council.

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Florentin, D.I., Segal, A. Minkowski symmetrizations of star shaped sets. Geom Dedicata 184, 115–119 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-016-0159-z

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