Meylender–Thalmaier optimal-cover conjecture for truncated squares
Meylender–Thalmaier optimal-cover conjecture for truncated squares
Let be a pentagon obtained from a square by truncating one of its corners, and let be the trapezoid determined by the placement of the four -normal triangles described in the source. For a convex shape , define the systolic ratio by
Meylender–Thalmaier conjecture. The systolic ratio is strictly less than for every convex shape , and it is maximized with respect to if and only if is a translate of or . This conjecture is based on computational experiments for pentagons obtained by truncating a corner of a square. The source presents it as an unresolved conjecture about the optimal shape of -covers.
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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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