There Is No Face-to-Face Partition of R5 into Acute Simplices

  • Authors:
  • Michal Krizek

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Zitna 25, CZ-115 67 Prague 1, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We prove that a point in the Euclidean space R5 cannot be surrounded by a finite number of acute simplices. This fact implies that there does not exist a face-to-face partition of R5 into acute simplices. The existence of an acute simplicial partition of Rd for d 5 is excluded by induction, but for d = 4 this is an open problem.