Dissections of regular polygons into triangles of equal areas

DOI10.1007/BF02187738MaRDI QIDQ1122147zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors E. A. Kasimatis

Publication date 1989

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

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/131087

zbMATH Keywords

convex polygonsdissectionstilings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

The following theorem is proved: Let \(n\geq 5\) be an integer. Then a regular n-gon is dissectable into m triangles of equal areas iff m is a multiple of n. For the proof the author uses Sperner's lemma, non- Archimedean valuations and dissectability-techniques.

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