The area of reduced spherical polygons (Q2152818)

The authors confirm two conjectures formulated by \textit{M. Lassak} [Colloq. Math. 138, No. 2, 205--216 (2015; Zbl 1316.52017)], resulting in the following two main theorems: (i) The regular spherical \(n\)-gon has the maximum area among all regular spherical \(k\)-gons of fixed thickness, with odd numbers \(k, n\) and \(3 \leq k \leq n\). (ii) The area of every reduced spherical nonregular \(n\)-gon is less than that of the regular spherical \(n\)-gon of the same thickness.