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On inside-out Dissections of Polygons and Polyhedra

Computational Geometry 2024-11-12 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this work we study inside-out dissections of polygons and polyhedra. We first show that an arbitrary polygon can be inside-out dissected with 2n+12n+1 pieces, thereby improving the best previous upper bound of 4(n2)4(n-2) pieces. Additionally, we establish that a regular polygon can be inside-out dissected with at most 66 pieces. Lastly, we prove that any polyhedron that can be decomposed into finitely many regular tetrahedra and octahedra can be inside-out dissected.

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@article{arxiv.2411.06584,
  title  = {On inside-out Dissections of Polygons and Polyhedra},
  author = {Reymond Akpanya and Adi Rivkin and Frederick Stock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06584},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Keywords: Polygons, Polyhdra, Inside-out Dissections