Mallée's parabolic-triangle isobilliard conjecture
Mallée's parabolic-triangle isobilliard conjecture
Let be the unit disk in the plane, and for a convex shape let be the length of the shortest closed generalized billiard orbit in . Mallée's isobilliard conjecture. Mallée's parabolic triangle has the smallest area among convex shapes satisfying
This is an equivalent formulation of the conjectural optimality of Mallée's example in Wetzel's worm problem. The source says the problem is still open.
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Alexey Balitskiy, Ivan Mitrofanov and Alexander Polyanskii, “Triangle covering problems and the Viterbo inequality in the plane”, arXiv:2603.12495 (2026).
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