On an extremal problem connected with simplices

DOI10.1007/S13366-013-0151-9MaRDI QIDQ464799zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ákos G. Horváth

Publication date 30 October 2014

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3454

zbMATH Keywords

convex hullisometryreflection at a hyperplanesimplexvolume inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integration of real functions of several variables: length, area, volume (26B15) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Abstract: In this note we investigate the behavior of the volume that the convex hull of two congruent and intersecting simplices in Euclidean $n$-space can have. We prove some useful equalities and inequalities on this volume. For the regular simplex we determine the maximal possible volume for the case when the two simplices are related to each other via reflection at a hyperplane intersecting them.

Review text

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.

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