Mutually contiguous translates of a plane disk

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-95-07802-8MaRDI QIDQ1896007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Bezdek, Krystyna Kuperberg, Włodzimierz Kuperberg

Publication date 28 January 1996

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/s0012-7094-95-07802-8

zbMATH Keywords

mutually contiguous translatespackingsplane disk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Review text

The authors consider topological disks (i.e. homeomorphic to the unit circle) in the euclidean plane \(E^2\). Two disks are called contiguous, if they have a common point but do not overlap. Their main result is: If \(n\) translates of a disk are mutually contiguous, then \(n \leq 4\). As the authors point out, this answers a question posed by J. Mitchell in 1991. Further several related results are given.

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