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Is a spectrahedron boundary "smooth"?

A spectrahedron is a set defined by linear matrix inequality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrahedron)

I was wondering if the boundary of such set is almost always smooth? By smooth I mean that it admits a tangent hyperplane at any point of the surface.

I say almost because for the special case of the polytope, the boundary has many "edges", so the answer in this special case would be no.

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