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Meissner polyhedra

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We develop a concrete way to construct bodies of constant width in dimension three. They are constructed from special embeddings of self-dual graphs.

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  1. Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Unidad Juriquilla, Mexico

    L. Montejano & E. Roldán-Pensado

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This research was supported by CONACYT project 166306 and PAPITT-UNAM project IN112614.

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Montejano, L., Roldán-Pensado, E. Meissner polyhedra. Acta Math. Hungar. 151, 482–494 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-017-0697-3

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