Homothetic packings of centrally symmetric convex bodies

DOI10.1007/S10711-022-00675-WMaRDI QIDQ2071817zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 31 January 2022

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03436

infinitesimal rigidity normed spaces centrally symmetric convex bodies convex body packings regular symmetric body

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Abstract: A centrally symmetric convex body is a convex compact set with non-empty interior that is symmetric about the origin. Of particular interest are those that are both smooth and strictly convex -- known here as regular symmetric bodies -- since they retain many of the useful properties of the

d

-dimensional Euclidean ball. We prove that for any given regular symmetric body

C

, a homothetic packing of copies of

C

with randomly chosen radii will have a

(2, 2)

-sparse planar contact graph. We further prove that there exists a comeagre set of centrally symmetric convex bodies

C

where any

(2, 2)

-sparse planar graph can be realised as the contact graph of a stress-free homothetic packing of

C

.

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