The Hexagonal Honeycomb Conjecture
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The Honeycomb Conjecture
This paper gives a proof of the classical honeycomb conjecture: any partition of the plane into regions of equal area has perimeter at least that of the regular hexagonal honeycomb tiling.
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عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0002-9947,1088-6850
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-99-02356-9