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Centrally symmetric convex bodies and distributions II

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In continuation of a previous work we study the generating distributions of centrally symmetric convex bodies and obtain some more geometric formulas and new characterizations of zonoids and generalized zonoids.

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Weil, W. Centrally symmetric convex bodies and distributions II. Israel J. Math. 32, 173–182 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764913

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