Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 327, No. 2 (Oct., 1991), pp. 795-813 (19 pages) Let Γ(X) denote the proper, lower semicontinuous, convex functions on a Banach space X, equipped ...

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This paper deals with the packing problem of circles and non-convex polygons, which can be both translated and rotated into a strip with prohibited regions. Using the Ф-function technique, a ...