• Title of article

    The kissing number of the regular polygon

  • Author/Authors

    Likuan Zhao، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1998
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    293
  • To page
    296
  • Abstract
    Let Pn be an arbitrary regular polygon with n sides. What is the maximum number k(Pn) of congruent regular polygons (copies of Pn) that can be arranged so that each touches Pn but no two of them overlap? Youngs (1939), Klamkin (1995) and others established that k(P3) = 12, k(P4) = 8 and k(P6) = 6. In this paper, we will establish the general and nice result k(Pn) = 6. where n > 6.
  • Journal title
    Discrete Mathematics
  • Serial Year
    1998
  • Journal title
    Discrete Mathematics
  • Record number

    951115