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Is a spectrahedron's boundary almost always "smooth"?

A spectrahedron is a convex set defined by a linear matrix inequality (LMI).

Is the boundary of such a set 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". In this special case, the answer would be no.

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