English

Cutting Mutually Congruent Pieces from Convex Regions

Combinatorics 2011-02-24 v3

Abstract

What is the shape of the 2D convex region P from which, when 2 mutually congruent convex pieces with maximum possible area are cut out, the highest fraction of the area of P is left over? When P is restricted to the set of all possible triangular shapes, our computational search yields an approximate upper bound of 5.6% on the area wasted when any triangle is given its best (most area utilizing) partition into 2 convex pieces. We then produce evidence for the general convex region which wastes the most area for its best convex 2-partition not being a triangle and briefly discuss some further generalizations of the question.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1012.3106,
  title  = {Cutting Mutually Congruent Pieces from Convex Regions},
  author = {R. Nandakumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3106},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures. 'v-3' slightly modified from earlier versions

R2 v1 2026-06-21T16:58:36.095Z