Equidissections of kite-shaped quadrilaterals

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2009.2.89MaRDI QIDQ2390634zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles H. Jepsen, Trevor Sedberry, Rolf Hoyer

Publication date 31 July 2009

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2009.2.89

zbMATH Keywords

equidissectionsirrational algebraic numbertrapezoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dissections and valuations (Hilbert's third problem, etc.) (52B45)

Review text

The authors investigate the problem to dissect special quadrilaterals into triangles of equal areas. More precisely, they investigate dissections of kite-shaped quadrilaterals which can be described by vertices of the form \((0,0)\), \((0,1)\), \((1,0)\), and \((a,a)\), \(a>{1\over 2}\), and denoted by \(Q(a)\). The axial symmetry of \(Q(a)\) implies that \(Q(a)\) can be dissected into an arbitrary even number of such triangles. Inspired by this, the authors present analogous results for certain odd numbers, using purely elementary methods. At the end of the article they pose some open questions.

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