On the perimeters of simple polygons contained in a disk
Metric Geometry
2010-04-01 v1
Abstract
A simple -gon is a polygon with edges with each vertex belonging to exactly two edges and every other point belonging to at most one edge. Brass asked the following question: For odd, what is the maximum perimeter of a simple -gon contained in a Euclidean unit disk? In 2009, Audet, Hansen and Messine answered this question, and showed that the optimal configuration is an isosceles triangle with a multiple edge, inscribed in the disk. In this note we give a shorter and simpler proof of their result, which we generalize also for hyperbolic disks, and for spherical disks of sufficiently small radii.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.3922,
title = {On the perimeters of simple polygons contained in a disk},
author = {Zsolt Langi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3922},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures