Journal of Convex Analysis 20 (2013), No. 2, 483--493
Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2013
An Evolutionary Structure of Convex Quadrilaterals. Part II
Anastasios Zachos
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Patras, 26500 Rion, Greece
azachos@gmail.com
Gerasimos Zouzoulas
G. Zouzoulas Ltd, Meintani 25, 117-41 Athens, Greece
pantarei@zouzoulas.gr
[Abstract-pdf]
[For Part I see the authors, J. Convex Analysis 15 (2008) 411-426.]
We solve explicitly the generalized Gauss problem for convex quadrilaterals in the two dimensional Euclidean Space. By introducing the variable $$ c=c_{G}+\frac{|B_{1}-B_{4}|+|B_{2}-B_{3}|}{2}, \quad\text{where}\quad c_{G}=\frac{1}{2} $$ is the Gauss constant and $B_{i}$ are positive real variables, such that $\sum_{i=1}^{4}B_{i}=1,$ we derive some new evolutionary structures of convex quadrilaterals and we give the definition of the degree of plasticity of convex quadrilaterals which could be extended to the degree of plasticity of convex polygons with respect to the topology of weighted Steiner minimal trees. Finally, the solution of the weighted Steiner tree problem for convex quadrilaterals gives a second property, which is the translation between the two Fermat-Torricelli points.
Keywords: Weighted Fermat-Torricelli problem, Steiner minimal tree, convex quadrilaterals.
MSC: 51E12, 52A10, 52A55, 51E10
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