On an extremal problem connected with simplices (Q464799)

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.