Minimum area isosceles containers

MaRDI QIDQ6333514zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gergely Kiss, János Pach, Gábor Somlai

Publication date 26 January 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15) Plane and solid geometry (educational aspects) (97G40)

Abstract: We show that every minimum area isosceles triangle containing a given triangle $T$ shares a side and an angle with $T$. This proves a conjecture of Nandakumar motivated by a computational problem. We use our result to deduce that for every triangle $T$, (1) there are at most $3$ minimum area isosceles triangles that contain $T$, and (2) there exists an isosceles triangle containing $T$ whose area is smaller than $sqrt2$ times the area of $T$. Both bounds are best possible.

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