Asymmetric polygons with maximum area

Abstract

We say that a polygon inscribed in the circle is asymmetric if it contains no two antipodal points being the endpoints of a diameter. Given $n$ diameters of a circle and a positive integer $k<n$, this paper addresses the problem of computing a maximum area asymmetric $k$-gon having as vertices $k<n$ endpoints of the given diameters. The study of this type of polygons is motivated by ethnomusiciological applications.