## Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

### Blaschke's rolling ball property and conformal metric ratios

#### Abstract

We characterize the closed sets in Euclidean space that satisfy a two-sided rolling ball property. As an application we show that certain conformal metric ratios have boundary value~1.

#### Article information

Source
Rocky Mountain J. Math., Volume 47, Number 1 (2017), 161-184.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 3 March 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1488531895

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1216/RMJ-2017-47-1-161

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3619759

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1364.30028

#### Citation

Herron, David A.; Julian, Poranee K. Blaschke's rolling ball property and conformal metric ratios. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 47 (2017), no. 1, 161--184. doi:10.1216/RMJ-2017-47-1-161. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1488531895

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