Upper bound for the geodesic complexity of the icosahedron
Let the geodesic complexity of a convex polyhedron mean the minimum number of sets needed to cover its geodesic motion-planning problem, so that a complexity of at most four means that at most five sets are needed. Icosahedron upper-bound conjecture. The geodesic complexity of an icosahedron is at most four, requiring at most five sets. Together with the corresponding lower-bound conjecture, this would determine the icosahedron's geodesic complexity; the paper presents the claim as an expected result, and no resolution is supplied here.
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Florian Frick and Pranav Rajbhandari, “Geodesic complexity of the octahedron, and an algorithm for cut loci on convex polyhedra”, arXiv:2508.19362 (2025).
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