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Maximum-Area Quadrilateral in a Convex Polygon, Revisited

Computational Geometry 2018-01-03 v3

Abstract

In this note we show by example that the algorithm presented in 1979 by Dobkin and Snyder for finding the largest-area k-gon that is inscribed in a convex polygon fails to find the optimal solution for k=4. This question, posed by Keikha et al. where they showed that the Dobkin Snyder algorithm fails for k=3.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00681,
  title  = {Maximum-Area Quadrilateral in a Convex Polygon, Revisited},
  author = {Vahideh Keikha and Maarten Löffler and Ali Mohades and Jérôme Urhausen and Ivor van der Hoog},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00681},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1705.11035

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