Abstract

Inspired by a question of J. B. Miller, L. Fejes Tóth asked for a catalogue of those subsets of Euclidean n-space which are homothetic (similar and similarly situated) to their intersection with a suitably translated copy of themselves. For example, a triangle is homothetic to its intersection with an arbitrarily translated replica provided only that the intersection has non-void interior. In 3-space a cube is homothetic to its intersection with a replica translated part way along any body diagonal. With these two preliminary examples for motivation, let us make a definition.

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