Tetrahedra are not reduced

✍ Scribed by H. Martini; W. Wenzel

• Book ID: 104349396
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 289 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0893-9659
• DOI: 10.1016/s0893-9659(02)00057-5

✦ Synopsis

A convex body which does not properly contain a convex body with the same minimal width is said to be reduced. It is not known whether there exist reduced n-polytopes, n 2 3. We prove that there is no reduced tetrahedron.