Swanepoel, Konrad 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1668-887X 
  
(2007)
Upper bounds for edge-antipodal and subequilateral polytopes.
    Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 54 (1).
     pp. 99-106.
     ISSN 0031-5303
  
  
  
Abstract
A polytope in a finite-dimensional normed space is subequilateral if the length in the norm of each of its edges equals its diameter. Subequilateral polytopes occur in the study of two unrelated subjects: surface energy minimizing cones and edge-antipodal polytopes. We show that the number of vertices of a subequilateral polytope in any d-dimensional normed space is bounded above by (d / 2 + 1) d for any d ≥ 2. The same upper bound then follows for the number of vertices of the edge-antipodal polytopes introduced by I. Talata [19]. This is a constructive improvement to the result of A. Pór (to appear) that for each dimension d there exists an upper bound f(d) for the number of vertices of an edge-antipodal d-polytopes. We also show that in d-dimensional Euclidean space the only subequilateral polytopes are equilateral simplices.
| Item Type: | Article | 
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| Official URL: | http://www.springer.com/math/journal/10998 | 
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Springer | 
| Divisions: | Mathematics | 
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics | 
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2009 09:41 | 
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 07:14 | 
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25412 | 
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