On the covering densities of quarter-convex disks (Q2354682)

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On the covering densities of quarter-convex disks
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    On the covering densities of quarter-convex disks (English)
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    20 July 2015
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    A convex disk \(K\) is called a quater-convex disk if it is affine equivalent to the disk \[ K_f=\{(x,y):0\leq x\leq 1, 0\leq y\leq f(x)\}, \] where \(f\) is a convex non-increasing continious function with \(f(0)=0\) and \(f(1)\geq 0\). It is easy to see that triangles and convex quadrilaterals are quater-convex disks. Let \(\vartheta_L(K)\) and \(\vartheta_T(K)\) be lattice and translative covering densities of \(K\). It is obvious, that \(\vartheta_T(K) \leq \vartheta_L(K)\). Then it is proved that for any quater-convex disk \(K\) holds the equality \[ \vartheta_T(K)=\vartheta_L(K). \] Earlier similar result was proved for centrally symmetric convex disks, for triangles, and for convex quadrilaterals.
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    translative covering
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    lattice covering
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    covering density
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    convex disk
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    quarter-convex disk
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