On L. Fejes Tóth's ''sausage-conjecture'' (Q793988)

\textit{L. Fejes Tóth} [Period. Math. Hung. 6, 197-199 (1975)] conjectured that the convex hull of a packing of k Euclidean balls of unit radius in \(E^ d\) (\(d\geq 5)\) has minimal volume if and only if the centers of the balls are arranged on a line segment of length 2k-2. Amongst others the authors prove this conjecture under the assumption that the centers of the balls are all contained in a 2-dimensional plane.