The Extremal Spheres Theorem

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2009-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/0906.3823v4

Discrete Mathematics 311(2-3): 171-177 (2011)

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Metric Geometry

9 pages, 4 figures

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Consider a polygon P and all neighboring circles (circles going through three consecutive vertices of P). We say that a neighboring circle is extremal if it is empty (no vertices of P inside) or full (no vertices of P outside). It is well known that for any convex polygon there exist at least two empty and at least two full circles, i.e. at least four extremal circles. In 1990 Schatteman considered a generalization of this theorem for convex polytopes in d-dimensional Euclidean space. Namely, he claimed that there exist at least 2d extremal neighboring spheres. In this paper, we show that there are certain gaps in Schatteman's proof, which is based on the Bruggesser-Mani shelling method. We show that using this method it is possible to prove that there are at least d+1 extremal neighboring spheres. However, the existence problem of 2d extremal neighboring spheres is still open.

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