On an extremal problem connected with simplices (Q464799)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6362505
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6362505 |
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On an extremal problem connected with simplices (English)
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30 October 2014
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The paper contains tight inequalities for the volume of the convex hull of two congruent and intersecting simplices in a finite dimensional Euclidean space. First a new proof for a result of \textit{C. A. Rogers} and \textit{G. C. Shephard} [Mathematika 5, 93--102 (1958; Zbl 0092.15301)] is given. Next the authors prove an explicit formula for the volume in case one of the simplices is obtained from the other by reflection in a hyperplane. Specialised to regular simplices, this formula says that the volume of the convex hull is at most twice the dimension times the volume of the starting simplex. A similar inequality is obtained for more general simplices in the last theorem of the paper.
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convex hull
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isometry
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reflection at a hyperplane
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simplex
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volume inequality
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