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Discrete & Computational Geometry

, Volume 40, Issue 4, pp 504–527 | Cite as

The Intrinsic Diameter of the Surface of a Parallelepiped

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Abstract

In the paper we obtain an explicit formula for the intrinsic diameter of the surface of a rectangular parallelepiped in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. As a consequence, we prove that an parallelepiped with relation \(1:1:\sqrt{2}\) for its edge lengths has maximal surface area among all rectangular parallelepipeds with given intrinsic diameter.

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Convex surface Rectangular parallelepiped Intrinsic distance Intrinsic diameter Surface area 
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  1. 1.Rubtsovsk Industrial InstituteRubtsovskRussia

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