The Hexagonal Honeycomb Conjecture

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02356-9zbMath0932.49032WikidataQ113275920 ScholiaQ113275920MaRDI QIDQ4235610

Frank Morgan

Publication date: 22 March 1999

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

isoperimetricbeesperimeter-minimizinghexagonal honeycomb

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38)

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An isoperimetric problem for three-dimensional parallelohedra ⋮ On the honeycomb conjecture for a class of minimal convex partitions ⋮ Proof of the honeycomb asymptotics for optimal Cheeger clusters ⋮ Minimal clusters of four planar regions with the same area ⋮ Phase field approach to optimal packing problems and related Cheeger clusters ⋮ Phase-field modelling and computing for a large number of phases

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