The extremal spheres theorem

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2010.10.012zbMATH Open1207.52010arXiv0906.3823OpenAlexW2052080723MaRDI QIDQ615997FDOQ615997

Authors: Alexey Glazyrin, Arseniy Akopyan, Oleg R. Musin, Alexey S. Tarasov 

Publication date: 7 January 2011

Published in: Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider a polygon P and all neighboring circles (circles going through three consecutive vertices of P). We say that a neighboring circle is extremal if it is empty (no vertices of P inside) or full (no vertices of P outside). It is well known that for any convex polygon there exist at least two empty and at least two full circles, i.e. at least four extremal circles. In 1990 Schatteman considered a generalization of this theorem for convex polytopes in d-dimensional Euclidean space. Namely, he claimed that there exist at least 2d extremal neighboring spheres. In this paper, we show that there are certain gaps in Schatteman's proof, which is based on the Bruggesser-Mani shelling method. We show that using this method it is possible to prove that there are at least d+1 extremal neighboring spheres. However, the existence problem of 2d extremal neighboring spheres is still open.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3823

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zbMATH Keywords

Delaunay triangulationfour-vertex theoremshellability of complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) (n)-vertex theorems via direct methods (51L15)

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