Homothetic convex bodies

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Two convex bodies are homothetic convex bodies if one is a translation of a positive uniform dilation of the other. Their lengths scale by and their volumes by . Closed disks of positive radii are homothetic convex bodies; axis-aligned positive-sided rectangles are homothetic convex bodies exactly when their aspect ratios agree. The Brunn-Minkowski theorem characterizes this relation by equality of root-volumes in Minkowski addition.

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