학술논문

Surface-area-minimizing n-hedral Tiles
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
Mathematics - Metric Geometry
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Abstract
We provide a list of conjectured surface-area-minimizing n-hedral tiles of space for n from 4 to 14, previously known only for n equal to 5 or 6. We find the optimal "orientation-preserving" tetrahedral tile (n=4), and we give a nice proof for the optimal 5-hedron (a triangular prism).