On the smallest area (n-1)-gon containing a convex n-gon

DOI10.1007/S10998-023-00527-4MaRDI QIDQ6061189zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David E. Hong, Dan Ismailescu, Alex K. Kwak, Grace Y. Park

Publication date 5 December 2023

Published in Periodica Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00326

zbMATH Keywords

global optimizationMAPLEnonnegative polynomialspolygon approximationvector product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real algebraic and real-analytic geometry (14P99) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) Nonconvex programming, global optimization (90C26)

Abstract: We prove that every unit area convex pentagon is contained in a convex quadrilateral of area no greater than $3/sqrt5$, and that every unit area convex hexagon is contained in a convex pentagon of area no greater than $7/6$. Both results are tight as the case of the regular pentagon (hexagon) shows. We conjecture that for every $nge6$, every unit area convex $n$ - gon is contained in a $(n-1)$ - gon of area no greater than $1+an(2pi/n)sec(pi/n)/n$.

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