The tetrahedron's exact Nieuwland constant conjecture

For a compact convex set S⊆R3S\subseteq\mathbb{R}^3, its Nieuwland constant μS\mu_S is the largest rescaling factor for which a second copy of SS can pass straight through a hole in the interior of the first. The tetrahedron's exact Nieuwland constant conjecture. The Nieuwland constant for the tetrahedron is equal to

61+2.\frac{\sqrt{6}}{1+\sqrt{2}}.

The paper gives an explicit passage establishing this value as a lower bound, while exact Nieuwland constants for the non-cube Platonic solids are generally not known; the conjecture asserts that this lower bound is optimal.

References

Primary source

Raj Gosain and Benjamin Grimmer, “Some New Insights from Highly Optimized Polyhedral Passages”, arXiv:2509.08190 (2025).

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