Conjecture that area-minimizing n-hedral tiles are convex

An nn-hedral tile is an nn-faced polyhedron that tiles space by congruent copies. A tile is area-minimizing when it has least surface area among nn-hedral tiles of the prescribed volume.

Convexity conjecture. For any nn, the least-area nn-hedral tile is convex.

The conjecture asks whether minimizing surface area under the tiling constraint forces convexity; it remains open in the source.

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Eliot Bongiovanni, Alejandro Diaz, Arjun Kakkar and Nat Sothanaphan, “The Least-Area Tetrahedral Tile of Space”, arXiv:1709.04139 (2019).

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