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Motivated by a question of R.\ Nandakumar, we show that the Euclidean plane can be dissected into mutually incongruent convex quadrangles of the same area and the same perimeter. As a byproduct we obtain vertex-to-vertex dissections of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Dirk Frettlöh , Christian Richter

Determining the minimum density of a covering of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ by Euclidean unit balls as $n\to\infty$ is a major open problem, with the best known results being the lower bound of $\left(\mathrm{e}^{-3/2}+o(1)\right)n$ by Coxeter, Few…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Boris Bukh , Jun Gao , Xizhi Liu , Oleg Pikhurko , Shumin Sun

Approximating convex bodies is a fundamental problem in geometry. Given a convex body $K$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for a fixed dimension $d$, the objective is to minimize the number of facets of an approximating polytope for a given Hausdorff…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

For a finite set $U$ of directions in the Euclidean plane, a convex non-degenerate polygon $P$ is called a $U$-polygon if every line parallel to a direction of $U$ that meets a vertex of $P$ also meets another vertex of $P$. We characterize…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-05 Christian Huck

We prove that a region in a two-dimensional affine subspace of a normed space $V$ has the least 2-dimensional Hausdorff measure among all compact surfaces with the same boundary. Furthermore, the 2-dimensional Hausdorff area density admits…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Dmitri Burago , Sergei Ivanov

We describe all families of star-shaped n-polygons in the Euclidean plane with prescribed perimeter and area ; they are leaves of a foliation F on the space of star-shaped n-polygons. By the way, we study some geometric properties of convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Aziz El Kacimi Alaoui , Abdellatif Zeggar

We derive lower estimates for the approximation of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean ball by polytopes with a fixed number of $k$-dimensional faces, $k\in\{0,1,\ldots,d-1\}$. The metrics considered include the intrinsic volume difference and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Steven Hoehner , Carsten Schütt , Elisabeth Werner

We are interested in the following problem of covering the plane by a sequence of congruent circular disks with a constraint on the distance between consecutive disks. Let $(\mathcal{D}_n)_{n \in \mathbb N}$ be a sequence of closed unit…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Amitava Bhattacharya , Anupam Mondal

A problem posed by Erd\H{o}s in 1945 initiated the study of non-separable arrangements of convex bodies. A finite collection of convex bodies in Euclidean $d$-space is called a non-separable family (or NS-family) if every hyperplane…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi

A central problem in discrete geometry, known as Hadwiger's covering problem, asks what the smallest natural number $N\left(n\right)$ is such that every convex body in ${\mathbb R}^{n}$ can be covered by a union of the interiors of at most…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Han Huang , Boaz A. Slomka , Tomasz Tkocz , Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou

We consider a variation of the classical Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres problems on the existence and number of convex $k$-gons and $k$-holes (empty $k$-gons) in a set of $n$ points in the plane. Allowing the $k$-gons to be non-convex, we show bounds…

Suppose that $K \subseteq \RR^d$ is a 0-symmetric convex body which defines the usual norm $$ \Norm{x}_K = \sup\Set{t\ge 0: x \notin tK} $$ on $\RR^d$. Let also $A\subseteq\RR^d$ be a measurable set of positive upper density $\rho$. We show…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mihail N. Kolountzakis

Given N points in the plane $P_1 P_2...P_N$ and a location $\Omega$, the union of discs with diameters $[\Omega P_i], i = 1, 2,...N$ covers the convex hull of the points. The location $\Omega_s$ minimizing the area covered by the union of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Yael Yankelevsky , Alfred M. Bruckstein

We show that every planar convex body is contained in a quadrangle whose area is less than $(1 - 2.6 \cdot 10^{-7}) \sqrt{2}$ times the area of the original convex body, improving the best known upper bound by W. Kuperberg.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ferenc Fodor , Florian Grundbacher

Let $M$ be a perfect matching on a set of points in the plane where every edge is a line segment between two points. We say that $M$ is globally maximum if it is a maximum-length matching on all points. We say that $M$ is $k$-local maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

In connection with an unsolved problem of Bang (1951) we give a lower bound for the sum of the base volumes of cylinders covering a d-dimensional convex body in terms of the relevant basic measures of the given convex body. As an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-29 Karoly Bezdek , Alexander Litvak

Extending results of Hershberger and Suri for the Euclidean plane, we show that ball hulls and ball intersections of sets of $n$ points in strictly convex normed planes can be constructed in $O(n \log n)$ time. In addition, we confirm that,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-28 Pedro Martín , Horst Martini

Let X be a normed space. A subset A of X is approximately convex if $d(ta+(1-t)b,A) \le 1$ for all $a,b \in A$ and $t \in [0,1]$ where $d(x,A)$ is the distance of $x$ to $A$. Let $\Co(A)$ be the convex hull and $\diam(A)$ the diameter of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. J. Dilworth , Ralph Howard , James W. Roberts

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$. A Steiner convex partition is a tiling of ${\rm conv}(S)$ with empty convex bodies. For every integer $d$, we show that $S$ admits a Steiner convex partition with at most $\lceil…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Adrian Dumitrescu , Sariel Har-Peled , Csaba D. Tóth

Polytopes are the basic finite data structures for convex sets: they appear as feasible regions in linear optimization, as geometric summaries in algorithms, and as random objects in stochastic geometry. A natural geometric question is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Steven Hoehner