Numeerisen analyysin ja laskennallisen tieteen seminaari

3.4.2006  klo 14.15  U356

Michal Krizek, Mathematical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences

There is no face-to-face partition of  R5  into acute simplices

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 $R^d$ for $d>5$ is excluded by induction, but for $d=4$ this is an open problem.