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Does there exist a polygon with the property that for a suitable point p in the plane every ray with endpoint p intersects the polygon in exactly n connected components? Does there exist a polygon with the property that there are two such points, or three, or a segment of such points?
For polygon P call a point p with the property that every ray from p intersects P in exactly n connected components n-isobathic with respect to P. Define the n-bathycenter of a polygon P as the set of all points p that are n-isobathic with respect to P. Further define a set S to be an n-bathycenter if there exists a polygon P of which S is the n-bathycenter. This paper deals with the characterization of 2- and 3-bathycenters, together with some results on the general case.
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Hedman, B. n-bathycenters. Geom Dedicata 5, 51–70 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148139
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148139