The Kneser-Poulsen conjecture for spherical polytopes

DOI10.1007/S00454-004-0831-1MaRDI QIDQ701776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Károly Bezdek, Robert Connelly

Publication date 16 December 2004

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-004-0831-1

zbMATH Keywords

ball packingSchläfli differential formspace of constant curvaturesphere packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

Review text

The authors prove the following result and some related statements: If a finite set of balls of radius \(\frac{\pi}{2}\) in the unit sphere \(S^n\) of Euclidean \((n+1)\)-space is rearranged so that the distance between each pair of centers does not decrease, then the (spherical) volume of the intersection does not increase, and the (spherical) volume of the union does not decrease. This can be considered as a spherical analogue of the Kneser-Poulsen conjecture for radii all equal to \(\frac{\pi}{2}\).

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