An isoperimetric theorem in plane geometry

DOI10.1007/S00454-002-2809-1MaRDI QIDQ1404502zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Siegel

Publication date 21 August 2003

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-002-2809-1

zbMATH Keywords

isoperimetric inequalitysimple polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Review text

The author proves a general covering theorem for simple polygons in the plane, from which he deduces, besides some new inequalities of isoperimetric type, the following known corollary. Let \(F\) be a polygon. Then among all polygons with edges congruent to those of \(F\), those polygons whose vertices lie on a circle have the greatest area. The new approach is interesting since it does not need any previous isoperimetric inequality; thus it gives a satisfactory response to a remark made by \textit{I. M. Yaglom} and \textit{V. G. Boltyanskii} in their book [`Convex fiqures' (Library of the Mathematical Circle, New York) (1961; Zbl 0098.35501)].

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