Conjecture on the structure of a minimal configuration in Moser's worm problem
Conjecture on the structure of a minimal configuration in Moser's worm problem
Let be the fixed line segment, the square, and let denote the triangular objects in the configuration. Consider configurations with and minimize the area of their convex hull. Minimal-configuration conjecture. The optimal configuration of , and must have the following properties: (1) the right-most vertex of coincides with the point of ; (2) the top-most vertices of and coincide. The properties are suggested by numerical grid-search experiments in the study of lower bounds for Moser's worm problem; the supplied text gives no proof or resolution, so the conjecture remains open.
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Tirasan Khandhawit and Sira Sriswasdi, “An Improved Lower Bound for Moser's Worm Problem”, arXiv:math/0701391 (2009).
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