The Honeycomb Conjecture

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  • Thomas C. Hales
چکیده

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:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry

دوره 25  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001