The tetrahedron's exact Nieuwland constant conjecture
The tetrahedron's exact Nieuwland constant conjecture
For a compact convex set , its Nieuwland constant is the largest rescaling factor for which a second copy of 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
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.
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Raj Gosain and Benjamin Grimmer, “Some New Insights from Highly Optimized Polyhedral Passages”, arXiv:2509.08190 (2025).
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