Concavity conjecture for maximal-area disk-polygons

Let CC be a circle of radius r<1r<1, and let PnP_n be an nn-sided disk-polygon of largest area inscribed in CC.

Concavity conjecture for maximal-area disk-polygons. For all n4n\geq 4,

Area(Pn1)+Area(Pn+1)<2Area(Pn).\operatorname{Area}(P_{n-1})+\operatorname{Area}(P_{n+1})<2\operatorname{Area}(P_n).

The paper proves this inequality for odd nn with n5n\geq 5, but states that its method does not extend straightforwardly to all nn and that no general area formula is known. The conjecture extends the established odd-index case to every n4n\geq4.

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Karoly Bezdek, Zsolt Langi, Marton Naszodi and Peter Papez, “Ball-Polyhedra”, arXiv:1110.4329 (2011).

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