Existence of well-centered simplicial face-to-face tiling of five-dimensional space (Q2230925): Difference between revisions

A well-centered simplex is defined by containing the center of its circumsphere in the interior of the simplex. A triangle (or two-dimensional simplex) is acute if and only if it is well-centered. In higher dimensions (\(d \ge 3\)) the two properties of acuteness and well-centeredness are distinct. In the paper it is proven that there exists a well-centered 5-simplicial face-to-face tiling of five-dimensional Euclidean space. The proof is constructive. It is based on Sommerville's construction of tetrahedral tilings, generalized for arbitrary dimension. Also the author constructs well-centered face-to-face tilings of four-dimensional Euclidean space by a (single) 4-simplex. Tilings by well-centered simplices have applications in numerical mathematics.