A Markoff-type chain for the view-obstruction problem for spheres in R^ 4

DOI10.1007/BF01301689MaRDI QIDQ1345294zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. C. Dumir, R. J. Hans-Gill, J. B. Wilker

Publication date 2 March 1995

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/178664

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodiesdiophantine approximationMarkoff-type chainminimal blocking sizeview obstruction problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Diophantine inequalities (11J25) Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07)

Review text

In the view obstruction problem, congruent convex bodies, centered at \(({1 \over 2}, \dots, {1 \over 2}) + \mathbb{Z}^ n\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\), are expanded uniformly until they block all rays from the origin into the open positive cone. The main problem is to determine the minimal blocking size. In the case of the cube this is a problem of simultaneous diophantine approximation; and in fact this was the starting point for view obstructions. The authors consider spheres of diameter 1. Its critical values \(\nu (n)\) are known for \(n = 2,3\), and the authors show \(\nu (4) = \sqrt {11/15}\). They further obtain a Markoff-type chain of isolated extreme values.

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