An isoperimetric problem for three-dimensional parallelohedra

DOI10.2140/PJM.2022.316.169MaRDI QIDQ2121401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zsolt Lángi

Publication date 4 April 2022

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11621

zbMATH Keywords

discrete isoperimetric problemshoneycomb conjectureKelvin's conjectureKepler's conjectureparallelohedratilingzonotopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

Abstract: The aim of this note is to investigate isoperimetric-type problems for $3$-dimensional parallelohedra; that is, for convex polyhedra whose translates tile the $3$-dimensional Euclidean space. Our main result states that among $3$-dimensional parallelohedra with unit volume the one with minimal mean width is the regular truncated octahedron.

Review text

A parallelohedron is a convex polyhedron that admits face-to-face tilings of the Euclidean space with its translates. There are five types of 3-dimensional parallelohedra, which were found by \textit{E. S. Fedorov} in [``Начала учения о фигурах (Russian), Zap. Mineral. Ob. 21, No. 2, 1--279 (1885)]. The paper is devoted to isoperimetric-type problems for 3-dimensional parallelohedra. A new representation of 3-dimensional parallelohedra is proposed and used. The main result is related to mean width, which is a measure of the ``size of a body. It states that among 3-dimensional parallelohedra of unit volume, regular truncated octahedra have minimal width. Also some old and new open problems are listed.

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