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A hyperbolic polygon is defined to be cyclic, horocyclic, or equidistant if its vertices lie on a metric circle, horocycle, or a component of the equidistant locus to a hyperbolic geodesic, respectively. Convex such $n$-gons are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Jason DeBlois

A polyiamond is a polygon composed of unit equilateral triangles, and a generalized deltahedron is a convex polyhedron whose every face is a convex polyiamond. We study a variant where one face may be an exception. For a convex polygon P,…

Given a finite collection P of convex n-polytopes in RP^n (n>1), we consider a real projective manifold M which is obtained by gluing together the polytopes in P along their facets in such a way that the union of any two adjacent polytopes…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-29 Jaejeong Lee

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

Every convex polygon with $n$ vertices is a linear projection of a higher-dimensional polytope with at most $147\,n^{2/3}$ facets.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yaroslav Shitov

A regular $n$-gon inscribing a knot is a sequence of $n$ points on a knot, such that the distances between adjacent points are all the same. It is shown that any smooth knot is inscribed by a regular $n$-gon for any $n$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ying-Qing Wu

This is a study of the construction of particular regular sub-n-gons T in regular n-gons P using a special system of chords of P. In particular, some of these sub-n-gons have areas which are integer divisors of the area of the given n-gon…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-03-03 James M Parks

Suppose that a polygon $P$ is given as an array containing the vertices in counterclockwise order. We analyze how many vertices (including the index of each of these vertices) we need to know before we can bound $P$, i.e., report a bounded…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Jack Stade , Shuyi Yan , Hanwen Zhang

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points on the plane in general position. We say that a set $\Gamma$ of convex polygons with vertices in $P$ is a convex decomposition of $P$ if: Union of all elements in $\Gamma$ is the convex hull of $P,$ every…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Mario Lomeli-Haro

A simple n-gon is a polygon with n edges such that each vertex belongs to exactly two edges and every other point belongs to at most one edge. Brass, Moser and Pach asked the following question: For n > 3 odd, what is the maximum perimeter…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-18 Zsolt Lángi

A {\em convex hole} (or {\em empty convex polygon)} of a point set $P$ in the plane is a convex polygon with vertices in $P$, containing no points of $P$ in its interior. Let $R$ be a bounded convex region in the plane. We show that the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-06 József Balogh , Hernán González-Aguilar , Gelasio Salazar

We define an $n$-gon to be any convex polygon with $n$ vertices. Let $V$ represent the set of vertices of the polygon. A proper $k$-coloring refers to a function, $f$ : $V$ $\rightarrow$ $\{1, 2, 3, ... k\}$, such that for any two vertices…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Shantanu Chhabra

A convex polygon Q is circumscribed about a convex polygon P if every vertex of P lies on at least one side of Q. We present an algorithm for finding a maximum area convex polygon circumscribed about any given convex n-gon in O(n^3) time.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Markus Ausserhofer , Susanna Dann , Zsolt Lángi , Géza Tóth

By a poly-line drawing of a graph G on n vertices we understand a drawing of G in the plane such that each edge is represented by a polygonal arc joining its two respective vertices. We call a turning point of a polygonal arc the bend. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-15 Radoslav Fulek , Balázs Keszegh , Filip Morić

A closed curve in the plane is weakly simple if it is the limit (in the Fr\'echet metric) of a sequence of simple closed curves. We describe an algorithm to determine whether a closed walk of length n in a simple plane graph is weakly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Hsien-Chih Chang , Jeff Erickson , Chao Xu

Let $\Pi$ be a convex decomposition of a set $P$ of $n\geq 3$ points in general position in the plane. If $\Pi$ consists of more than one polygon, then either $\Pi$ contains a deletable edge or $\Pi$ contains a contractible edge.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Ferran Hurtado , Eduardo Rivera-Campo

We construct a polygonal spiral by arranging a sequence of regular $n$-gons such that each $n$-gon shares a specified side and vertex with the $(n+1)$-gon in the construction. By offering flexibility for determining the size of each $n$-gon…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Kyle Fridberg

Given a convex domain $C$, a $C$-polygon is an intersection of $n\geq 2$ homothets of $C$. If the homothets are translates of $C$ then we call the intersection a translative $C$-polygon. This paper proves that if $C$ is a strictly convex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Illya Ivanov , Cameron Strachan

It is well known that to determine a triangle up to congruence requires three measurements: three sides, two sides and the included angle, or one side and two angles. We consider various generalizations of this fact to two and three…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-27 Alexander Borisov , Mark Dickinson , Stuart Hastings

The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the notions of geometric and sequential convexity within a graph-theoretic framework, with the aim of examining various structural properties and exploring the connection between these…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Angshuman R. Goswami