Isoperimetric pentagonal tilings

DOI10.1090/NOTI838MaRDI QIDQ2918506zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ping Ngai Chung, Miguel A. Fernandez, Yifei Li, Michael Mara, Frank Morgan, Isamar Rosa Plata, Niralee Shah, Luis Sordo Vieira, Elena Wikner

Publication date 6 October 2012

Published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6161

zbMATH Keywords

Cairo and prismatic tilesEuclidean planeHoneycomb conjectureperimeter-minimizing tilingsunit-area pentagons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: We identify least-perimeter unit-area tilings of the plane by convex pentagons, namely tilings by Cairo and Prismatic pentagons, find infinitely many, and prove that they minimize perimeter among tilings by convex polygons with at most five sides.

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