We try to proceed from A claim on the concurrency of area bisectors of planar convex regions
Definitions: Given a planar convex region C, an area bisector of C is any line segment that partitions C into 2 pieces of equal area. A perimeter bisector is any line segment that partitions C into 2 pieces of equal perimeter. Note that both bisectors can also be defined as full lines rather than segments.
- Among all C's of unit diameter, which shape maximizes the difference in orientation between a longest area bisector of C and thethat longest perimeter bisector of C that is closest in orientation to it?
Note 1: Thanks to Daniel Asimov for pointing out that there could be multiple longest (and shortest) bisectors of both kinds.
Note 2: by replacing 'longest' in 1 by 'shortest', we have another question for which I am not sure if the answer is different.
- Which C of unit diameter maximizes the ratio between lengths of thea longest (shortest) area bisector and thea longest (shortest) perimeter bisector?
Guess: triangles seem good candidates as answers for all above questions but I have no quantitative answers.
- Are there C's for which there is only one longest (shortest) area bisector and many longest (shortest) perimeter bisectors (or vice versa)? In general, given arbitrary integers m and n, can one always construct a C with m longest (shortest) area bisectors and n longest (shortest) perimeter bisectors? This question follows from the comment below from Daniel Asimov.