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Small Volume Bodies of Constant Width with Tetrahedral Symmetries

Metric Geometry 2025-12-23 v2

Abstract

For every n2n\ge 2, we construct a body UnU_n of constant width 22 in En\mathbb{E}^n with small volume and symmetries of a regular nn-simplex. U2U_2 is the Reuleaux triangle. To the best of our knowledge, U3U_3 was not previously constructed, and its volume is smaller than the volume of other three-dimensional bodies of constant width with tetrahedral symmetries. While the volume of U3U_3 is slightly larger than the volume of Meissner's bodies of width 22, it exceeds the latter by less than 0.137%0.137\%. For all large nn, the volume of UnU_n is smaller than the volume of the ball of radius 0.8910.891.

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@article{arxiv.2406.18428,
  title  = {Small Volume Bodies of Constant Width with Tetrahedral Symmetries},
  author = {Andrii Arman and Andriy Bondarenko and Andriy Prymak and Danylo Radchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18428},
  year   = {2025}
}