Most Reinhardt polygons are sporadic

DOI10.1007/S10711-018-0326-5MaRDI QIDQ1737564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kevin G. Hare, Michael J. Mossinghoff

Publication date 23 April 2019

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5233

zbMATH Keywords

dihedral compositiongeometric optimizationReinhardt polynomialsporadic Reinhardt polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials (irreducibility, etc.) (11R09) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60)

Abstract: A extit{Reinhardt polygon} is a convex $n$-gon that, for $n$ not a power of $2$, is optimal in three different geometric optimization problems, for example, it has maximal perimeter relative to its diameter. Some such polygons exhibit a particular periodic structure; others are termed extit{sporadic}. Prior work has described the periodic case completely, and has shown that sporadic Reinhardt polygons occur for all $n$ of the form $n=pqr$ with $p$ and $q$ distinct odd primes and $rgeq2$. We show that (dihedral equivalence classes of) sporadic Reinhardt polygons outnumber the periodic ones for almost all $n$, and find that this first occurs at $n=105$. We also determine a formula for the number of sporadic Reinhardt polygons when $n=2pq$ with $p$ and $q$ distinct odd primes.

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