Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Given a parallelogram dissected into triangles, the area of any one of the triangles of the dissection is integral over the ring generated by the areas of the other triangles.Given a trapezoid dissected into triangles, the area of any triangle determined by either diagonal of the trapezoid is integral over the ring generated by the areas of the triangles in the dissection.In both cases, the integrality relations are invariant under deformation of the dissection.The trapezoid theorem implies and provides a new context for Monsky's equidissection theorem that a square cannot be dissected into an odd number of triangles of equal area.A corollary of these results is that the area polynomials for parallelograms we introduced and studied in previous work (2014; 2022; 2023) have all leading coefficients equal to ±1.
Source: Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Authors: Aaron Abrams, James Pommersheim
Language: English
Subfield: Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4402503901