Affine properties of convex equal-area polygons

DOI10.1007/S00454-012-9448-YMaRDI QIDQ714992zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcos Craizer, Ralph C. Teixeira, Moacyr A. H. B. da Silva

Publication date 15 October 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2722

zbMATH Keywords

discrete affine curvaturediscrete affine evolutediscrete isoperimetric inequalitydiscrete six-vertex theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38)

Abstract: In this paper we discuss some affine properties of convex equal-area polygons, which are convex polygons such that all triangles formed by three consecutive vertices have the same area. Besides being able to approximate closed convex smooth curves almost uniformly with respect to affine length, convex equal-area polygons admit natural definitions of the usual affine differential geometry concepts, like affine normal and affine curvature. These definitions lead to discrete analogous of the six vertices theorem and an affine isoperimetric inequality. One can also define discrete counterparts of the affine evolute, parallels and the affine distance symmetry set preserving many of the properties valid for smooth curves.

Review text

The authors consider the space of convex planar \(n\)-gons whose triangles made by any three consecutive vertices have equal area. It is shown that this space has dimension \(n-5\) as a subset of the \(2n\)-affine dimensional space. More importantly, for such polygons, called equal area polygons, the authors define the affine tangent, affine normal at each vertex and, respectively, the affine curvature at each edge carrying over some of the properties of their counterparts for smooth curves. With these definitions, an analogue of the six vertex theorem from affine differential geometry is proved. Moreover, a discrete analogue of the isoperimetric inequality relating the total affine curvature to the affine length and area is shown.

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