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The issue addressed in this work is how to measure the degree of solidity of a closed convex cone in the Euclidean space \({\mathbb{R}^n}\) . One compares and establishes all sort of relations between the metric, the volumetric, and the Frobenius solidity indices.
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Gourion, D., Seeger, A. Solidity indices for convex cones. Positivity 16, 685–705 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11117-011-0140-x
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