An extremal problem of regular simplices: the five-dimensional case

DOI10.1007/S00022-019-0472-4zbMATH Open1417.52011arXiv1811.12399OpenAlexW2964120909WikidataQ128163097 ScholiaQ128163097MaRDI QIDQ2000708FDOQ2000708

Ákos G. Horváth

Publication date: 28 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The new result of this paper connected with the following problem: Consider a supporting hyperplane of a regular simplex and its re ected image at this hyperplane. When will be the volume of the convex hull of these two simplices maximal? We prove that in the case when the dimension is less or equal to 4, the maximal volume achieves in that case when the hyperplane goes through on a vertex and orthogonal to the height of the simplex at this vertex. More interesting that in the higher dimensional cases this position is not optimal. We also determine the optimal position of hyperplane in the 5-dimensional case. This corrects an erroneous statement in my paper [3].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12399

zbMATH Keywords

simplexconvex hullisometryvolume inequalityreflection at a hyperplane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Integration of real functions of several variables: length, area, volume (26B15)

Cites Work

• On an extremal problem connected with simplices
• Exterior algebra and projection of polytopes
• On the volume of the convex hull of two convex bodies
• The Extreme Projections of the Regular Simplex

Cited In (3)

• Integration bounds for the regular simplex in n-dimensional space
• Isoperimetric problems for polytopes with a given number of vertices
• Sections of the regular simplex – Volume formulas and estimates

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