Kadets-type theorems for partitions of a convex body

DOI10.1007/S00454-012-9437-1MaRDI QIDQ714990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arseniy Akopyan, Roman Karasev

Publication date 15 October 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5635

zbMATH Keywords

Kadets theoremTarski plank problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Abstract: For convex partitions of a convex body $B$ we prove that we can put a homothetic copy of $B$ into each set of the partition so that the sum of homothety coefficients is $ge1$. In the plane the partition may be arbitrary, while in higher dimensions we need certain restrictions on the partition.

Review text

A convex partition of a convex body \(B\) is a covering of \(B\) by a family of convex bodies with disjoint interiors. The paper discusses an analogue of Kadet's problem whether, for each convex partition of a convex body \(B\) in \(\mathbb{R}^d\), a positively homothetic copy of \(B\) can be placed into each body in the partition such that the sum of all homothety coefficients is at least \(1\) (see [\textit{V. Kadets}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 133, No. 5, 1491--1495 (2005; Zbl 1067.52008)]). The authors provide a positive solution for \(d=2\) and establish that certain restrictions on the partition are needed in higher dimensions.

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