Radii of regular polytopes

DOI10.1007/S00454-004-1127-1MaRDI QIDQ1764177zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors René Brandenberg

Publication date 23 February 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308121

zbMATH Keywords

circumradiuscross-polytopecubehypercubeinradiussimplex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

Abstract: This paper deals with the three types of regular polytopes which exist in all dimensions -- regular simplices, cubes and regular cross-polytopes -- and their outer and inner radii. While the inner radii of regular simplices are well studied, only a few cases are solved for the outer radii. We give a lower bound on these radii, and show that this bound is tight in almost 3 out of 4 dimensions. In a further section we complete the results about inner and outer radii of general boxes and cross-polytopes. Finally, because cubes and regular cross-polytopes are radii-minimal projections of simplices, we show that it is possible to deduce the results about their radii from the results about the outer radii of simplices.

Review text

Given an \(n\)-dimensional convex body \(P\), it is possible to define the radius of the body in many different ways. For example, one could fix some value of \(j\) with \(1\leq j\leq n\), and a point \(o\) within \(P\), and examine all possible ``slices of \(P\) by \(j\)-dimensional affine spaces passing through \(o\). One could then find, for each slice, the radius of the inscribed or circumscribed \(j\)-sphere. This radius would depend not just on \(j\) and \(o\), but also the orientation of the affine space. Minimising or maximising the inscribed or circumscribed radii over all affine spaces for a given \(j\) and \(o\) gives some measure of the radius of the convex body itself. In fact, this process gives four different radius measures for each \(j\). The article under review lists the four different radii for all \(j\), for all \(n\), for the regular simplex, cube and cross-polytope (with \(o\) taken as the centre of the polytope in each case). In the course of preparing the article, the author discovered that certain cases thought unsolved had in fact been previously solved and published in the Russian mathematical literature. Conversely, he also discovered that in other cases, the published solutions had serious flaws in the proof, which he was able to correct. The article gives a brief but thorough literature review of the subject matter, followed by a table of the results. The remainder (and bulk) of the article is devoted to proving the cases whose solutions had not previously been published.

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