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MiS Preprint
22/1997
The length of the shadow boundary
Andreas Knauf
Abstract
Among all embedded manifolds with positive exterior curvature smaller than k the ratio between the length of the shadow boundary and the surface is maximized by the sphere of radius 1/k.