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Recently McNeal proved, by analytic methods, that the D’Angelo type of a boundary point of a convex domain agrees with the maximal order of contact of the boundary with complex lines. We give an elementary geometric proof and generalization of McNeal’s theorem.
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Communicated by Steven Krantz
The authors were partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant Number DMS-9002541.
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Boas, H.P., Straube, E.J. On equality of line type and variety type of real hypersurfaces in Cn . J Geom Anal 2, 95–98 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02921382
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02921382