IMC 1998 · Problem 5

Day 220 points5th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Suppose that S\mathcal{S} is a family of spheres (i.e., surfaces of balls of positive radius) in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, n2n \ge 2, such that the intersection of any two contains at most one point. Prove that the set MM of those points that belong to at least two different spheres from S\mathcal{S} is countable.

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