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On the perimeters of simple polygons contained in a disk

Metric Geometry 2010-04-01 v1

Abstract

A simple nn-gon is a polygon with nn 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 n5n \geq 5 odd, what is the maximum perimeter of a simple nn-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.

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@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}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures