The area of cyclic polygons: recent progress on Robbins' conjectures

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2004.08.006MaRDI QIDQ2483907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Igor Pak

Publication date 1 August 2005

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408104

zbMATH Keywords

bellows conjecturecyclic polygonsgeneralized Heron polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38)

Abstract: In his works [R1,R2] David Robbins proposed several interrelated conjectures on the area of the polygons inscribed in a circle as an algebraic function of its sides. Most recently, these conjectures have been established in the course of several independent investigations. In this note we give an informal outline of these developments.

Review text

In this survey, the author gives an informal outline of recent developments on generalized Heron polynomials, which relate the areas of polygons inscribed in a circle to their side lengths, and their connections with problems of rigidity of convex polytopes.

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