Lower edge-density conjecture for normal convex mosaics in three-dimensional space

Let M\mathcal{M} be a normal, convex mosaic in R3\mathbb R^3 whose cells have unit volume, and let ρ1(M)\underline{\rho}_1(\mathcal{M}) denote its lower edge density. Lower edge-density conjecture. One has

ρ1(M)332.\underline{\rho}_1(\mathcal{M}) \geq \frac{3\sqrt{3}}{2}.

Equality is attained, for example, when the cells of M\mathcal{M} are the regular triangle-based right prisms described in the cited decomposition theorem. This conjecture gives the proposed lower bound for edge density among all normal, convex three-dimensional mosaics; the stated prism examples show that the bound is sharp.

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Primary source

Máté Kadlicskó, Zsolt Lángi and Shanxiang Lyu, “On the edge densities of normal, convex mosaics”, arXiv:2312.08050 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1407.2789.

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