Reguläre Packungen mit Reuleaux-Dreiecken. (Regular packings with Reuleaux-triangles) (Q1087147): Difference between revisions

In the plane an isometry w maps a convex disc S to a congruent copy w(S). If \({\mathfrak w}\) is one of the 17 two-dimensional discrete groups of isometries and no two discs in \({\mathfrak w}(S):=\{w(S)| w\in {\mathfrak w}\}\) overlap then we have a \({\mathfrak w}\)-packing of S. Theorem: The densest \({\mathfrak w}\)-packing of a Reuleaux triangle occurs when \({\mathfrak w}\) is the group \({\mathfrak w}_ 2\) generated by two rotations of period 3.