A norm inequality related to affine regular hexagons (Q695016)

Consider an affine regular hexagon with vertex set \(H= \{\pm v_1, \pm v_2, \pm v_3\}\subseteq S\), where \(S\) is the unit sphere of a normal plane. The author proves that \[ \min_i\, \max_{x\in S}\,\| x- v_i\|+\| x+ v_i\|\leq 3, \] yielding then the nice result that \[ \min_{y\in S}\, \max_{x\in S}\,\| x-y\|+\| x+ y\|\leq 3, \] with equality iff \(S\) is a parallelogram or an affine regular hexagon.