Escape paths of Besicovitch triangles

DOI10.4310/JOC.2011.V2.N3.A4MaRDI QIDQ446008zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John E. Wetzel, Yevgenya Movshovich

Publication date 28 August 2012

Published in Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/JOC.2011.V2.N3.A4

zbMATH Keywords

Besicovitch triangleescape pathworm problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Designs and configurations (05B99) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Review text

The shortest arcs that do not fit in the interior of a compact, convex body in the plane have been called its escape paths. The authors summarize basic general facts about such paths. Specializing to triangles, they study the escape paths of the so-called Besicovitch triangles, near-equilateral isosceles triangles recently shown by P. Coulton and Y. Movshovich to be covers for the family of all arcs of unit length. It is shown that each such triangle has exactly one escape path.

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