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Equilaterally triangulated surfaces with prescribed boundary
There is a problem in Richard Kenyon's list (Wayback Machine) which I would like to post here, because although I have thought about it from time to time, I have not been able to make the slightest ...
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To what extent is convexity a local property?
A polyhedron is the intersection of a finite collection of halfspaces. These halfspaces are not assumed to be linear, i.e. their bounding hyperplanes are not assumed to contain the origin. The ...
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Tverberg's theorem in CAT(0) spaces
Does Tverberg's theorem hold for CAT(0) spaces of covering dimension $d<\infty$:
Is it true that for any $d$-dimensional $CAT(0)$-space $X$ and a subset $E\subset X$ of cardinality $(d + 1)(r - ...
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Right-angled polytopes
%This question is motivated by the little discussion here at the bottom.
The following thing are known about hyperbolic right-angled polytopes:
Compact hyperbolic right-angled polytopes do not exist ...
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Tessellating $\mathbb{R}^n$ by bricks.
Let us call the $\ell_1$-product of intervals $[0,k_1]\times...\times [0,k_n]$ a brick of size $k_1+...+k_n$. Consider a tessellation $T$ of $\mathbb{R^n}$ by (shifted) bricks so that every point ...
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How can I embed an N-points metric space to a hypercube with low distortion?
I have a N-point metric space defined by the pairwise distance matrix. I want to encode these N points with binary strings, i.e. each point will be mapped to a vertex in a hypercube. The lengths of ...
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Which criteria guarantee an orthogonal circuit in $\mathbb R^3$ to be rigid?
For $n\ge4$, define an orthogonal circuit or O-circuit as a closed circuit of $n$ unit segments in $\mathbb R^3$ such that any two neighboring segments form a right angle. (Physically this could be ...
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Uniqueness of a polygon
Suppose I have two $n$-sided polygons A and B. Is there a non-trivial upper bound on the number of parameters (eg. area, perimeter, etc) of the two polygons, that need to be the same, for A and B to ...
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Triangles and convex hulls in high dimensions
Given a set $S_n$ of $n$ points $\mathbf{x}_1, \mathbf{x}_2, \ldots, \mathbf{x}_n\in\mathbb{R}^d$, such that every $(d+1)$-tuple in $S_n$ is affinely independent, and let $C(S_n)$ be the convex hull ...
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Covering a circle with small balls centered at nodes on a tiling
In $\mathbb{R}$, we have $n$ finite sets, namely $\{A_1,A_2,\dots, A_n\}$. From them, we define a tiling:
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T := \{x\in \mathbb{R}^n: \forall i \in \{1,2,\dots,n\}, ~x_i\in A_i\} = \prod_{i=1}^nA_i
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Maximum number of regions in a disk partitioned by pairs of parallel chords
We are given a disk $D$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Let $C$ be its boundary (i.e., the circle bounding $D$ on its plane). Let $P(n,d)$ be a set of $n$ pairs of chords of $C$ such that for each $\{c,c'\}\in P(n,...
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