On the perimeters of simple polygons contained in a disk

DOI10.1007/S00605-010-0214-ZMaRDI QIDQ621776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zsolt Lángi

Publication date 28 January 2011

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3922

zbMATH Keywords

circumcircleisoperimetric problemperimetersimple polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55) Isoperimetric problems for polytopes (52B60)

Abstract: A simple $n$-gon is a polygon with $n$ edges with each vertex belonging to exactly two edges and every other point belonging to at most one edge. Brass asked the following question: For $ngeq5$ odd, what is the maximum perimeter of a simple $n$-gon contained in a Euclidean unit disk? In 2009, Audet, Hansen and Messine answered this question, and showed that the optimal configuration is an isosceles triangle with a multiple edge, inscribed in the disk. In this note we give a shorter and simpler proof of their result, which we generalize also for hyperbolic disks, and for spherical disks of sufficiently small radii.

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