Clouds of planar convex bodies

DOI10.1007/S00010-002-8025-5MaRDI QIDQ1601713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lásló Szabó, Zoltán Ujváry-Menyhárt

Publication date 27 June 2002

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-002-8025-5

zbMATH Keywords

deep cloudfinite packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Review text

A deep cloud is a family of convex bodies \(K_1,\dots, K_n\) arranged around a given convex body \(K\) such that the bodies \(K_1,\dots, K_n\) are pairwise non-overlapping and each ray, emanating from \(K\), intersects some of the \(K_i\) at its interior. The authors are concerned with the minimum number \(C(K)\) of congruent copies of a given convex body \(K\) in the plane yielding a deep cloud around \(K\). After shortly confirming \(C(K)\geq 4\) (with various cases of equality), they prove that \(C(K)\leq 9\), with equality iff \(K\) is a circle. Furthermore, they show that \(C(K)= 8\) if there are two concentric circles \(C_1\), \(C_2\) of radius \(r_1= 0,99\) and \(r_2= 1\), respectively, such that \(C_1\subseteq K\subseteq C_2\).

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