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Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 2020 Volume 310, Pages 149–160 (Mi tm4113)

Division of $n$-Dimensional Euclidean Space into Circumscribed $n$-Cuboids

Vladimir Dragovićab, Roger Fidèle Ranomenjanaharya

a Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Rd., FN 32 Richardson, TX, 75080, USA
b Mathematical Institute SANU, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Kneza Mihaila 36, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract: In 1970, Böhm formulated a three-dimensional version of his two-dimensional theorem that a division of a plane by lines into circumscribed quadrilaterals necessarily consists of tangent lines to a given conic. Böhm did not provide a proof of his three-dimensional statement. The aim of this paper is to give a proof of Böhm's statement in three dimensions that a division of three-dimensional Euclidean space by planes into circumscribed cuboids consists of three families of planes such that all planes in the same family intersect along a line, and the three lines are coplanar. Our proof is based on the properties of centers of similitude. We also generalize Böhm's statement to the four-dimensional and then $n$-dimensional case and prove these generalizations.

UDC: 514.174.5

Received: December 1, 2019
Revised: December 1, 2019
Accepted: May 26, 2020

DOI: 10.4213/tm4113


 English version:
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2020, 310, 137–147

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