The authors resolve a long standing conjecture of \textit{A. S. Besicovitch} [Math. Gaz. 49, 286--288 (1965; Zbl 0134.40604)] which says that the equilateral triangle with side length \(\sqrt{28/27}\) is a ``worm-cover. This means that this triangle contains an isometric copy of any rectifiable arc of length 1. It is shown that this conjecture is true and moreover there is a class of isosceles triangles (including the above equilateral triangle) such that each triangle from the class is a worm-cover. It is also shown that each of these triangles is the smallest worm-cover in its similarity class. The extremal arcs are z-shaped centrally symmetric polygonal arcs consisting of three segments of equal length.
- The smallest convex cover for triangles of perimeter two
- Drapeable unit arcs fit in the unit \(30^\circ\) sector
- Wetzel's sector covers unit arcs
- \(z\)-arcs in the thirty degrees sector
- \(\Lambda\)-configuration and embedding
- Besicovitch triangles extended
- Escape paths of Besicovitch triangles
- Sectorial covers for unit arcs
- Parallelogram cover for triangles of perimeter two
- Recent advances in the worm problem
- On the approximation of shortest escape paths
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