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Minimum polyhedron with $n$ vertices

Metric Geometry 2020-12-21 v4 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We study a polyhedron with nn vertices of fixed volume having minimum surface area. Completing the proof of Fejes Toth, we show that all faces of a minimum polyhedron are triangles, and further prove that a minimum polyhedron does not allow deformation of a single vertex. We also present possible minimum shapes for n12n\le 12, some of them are quite unexpected, in particular n=8n=8.

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@article{arxiv.1704.03149,
  title  = {Minimum polyhedron with $n$ vertices},
  author = {Shigeki Akiyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.03149},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Minor update. To appear in Hiroshima Mathematical Journal (2021)

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