The Truncated Octahedral Conjecture
Thomas Hales, Lark Song
Abstract
Among three-dimensional parallelohedra of fixed volume, the Archimedean truncated octahedron uniquely minimizes surface area, affirming a conjecture of K. Bezdek from 2006. The final scalar inequality is verified by an exact computer-assisted certificate.
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