Admissibility criterion for regular spherical polygons
Admissibility criterion for regular spherical polygons
Let be a regular spherical polygon, and let its polar be the corresponding polar spherical polygon. Call admissible when it has the finite sentinel-set property: there is a finite subset of such that, for every spherical isometry , the polygons and intersect if and only if contains a point of or contains a point of .
Admissibility criterion. A regular spherical polygon is admissible if and only if the inner angle of its polar is at least
The criterion would remove the extra side-length condition currently used in the proof for spherical triangles and is motivated by the necessity of the angle bound and by an extensive search for counterexamples. The statement remains open in the source.
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Primary source
Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho, Andreas Spomer and Frank Vallentin, “Bounding the density of spherical polygon packings”, arXiv:2604.21451 (2026).
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