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Does the sequence formed by Intersecting angle bisector in a pentagon converge?

I asked this question on MSE here. Given a non-regular pentagon $A_1B_1C_1D_1E_1$ with no two adjacent angle having a sum of 360 degrees, from the pentagon $A_nB_nC_nD_nE_n$ construct the pentagon $...
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Convergence of sequences formed by orthocenters, incenters, and centroids in repeated triangle constructions

I asked this question on MSE here. Given a scalene triangle $A_1B_1C_1$ , construct a triangle $A_{n+1}B_{n+1}C_{n+1}$ from the triangle $A_nB_nC_n$ where $A_{n+1}$ is the orthocenter of $A_nB_nC_n$, ...
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Least number of circles required to cover a continuous function on $[a,b]$

I asked this question on MSE here. Given a continuous function $f :[a,b]\to\mathbb{R}$, what is the least number of closed circles with fixed radius $r$ required to cover the graph of $f$? It is ...
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The intersection of $ n $ cylinders in $ 3D$ space

I posted the question on here, but received no answer I recently found out about the Steinmetz Solids, obtained as the intersection of two or three cylinders of equal radius at right angles. If we set ...
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Definition of a unit ball in an Euclidean subspace? [closed]

Suppose $\Lambda$ is a $3$ dimensional lattice inside $\mathbb{R}^4$ and let $E$ be the subspace $\mathbb{R}$-spanned by $\Lambda$. What exactly is meant by the unit ball in $E$? This is something ...
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Optimizing the gradient norm on the unit sphere

Let $ \Bbb S^{d-1}=\{(x_1,\cdots ,x_d): x_1^2+ \cdots +x_d^2=1\}\subset \Bbb R^d$ be the unit sphere. Let $\nabla u= (\partial_{x_1}u,\cdots, \partial_{x_d}u)$ be the gradient of a function $u\in C_c^\...
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addition theorems for hypersine

I learned from Wolfram MathWorld about hypersine, as being a dimensional analog trig function for hypersolid angles. There it is being defined by The hypersine ($n$-dimensional sine function) is a ...
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On the area-perimeter ratio of a convex limited set

(Previously asked on MSE) Let $C\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a convex limited set. We define the average radius of $C$ as $$a_C=\frac{\int_{v\in C}d(v,C)dxdy}{A(C)}$$ Where $d(v,C)$ is the distance ...
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Is there a triangle which makes dense set of angles by drawing medians?

This problem is a restatement of this question, first announced in MathStackExchange. We start with a triangle $T$ in the Euclidean plane and we define $A_n$ as the set of angles of the $6^n$ ...
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Bi-Lipschitz version of Kirszbraun's extension theorem

Kirszbraun's theorem for $\mathbb{R}^2$ states the following: Given any set $S\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ and any Lipschitz function $f:S\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ with Lipschitz constant $k$, $0< k<...
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Lipschitz constant for map between triangles

Let $T_1$ and $T_2$ be any two euclidean triangles with labeled sides. The sides are labeled respectively $e_1^1,e_2^1,e_3^1$ and $e_1^2,e_2^2,e_3^2$. Call $A:T_1\rightarrow T_2$ the affine map which ...
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Continuity of minimizers to distance function from point to convex set

Suppose I am minimizing the Euclidean distance in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ between a point $y$ and compact convex set $U$ (where $y\notin U$): $\min_{x\in U}\|x-y\|$. I believe the minimizer $x_{U}^{*}$ is ...
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Number of small projections

Suppose $X$ is a finite subset of the plane and for $0\leq \theta<\pi$, let $l_\theta$ denote the line through the origin having angle $\theta$ with the positive $x$-axis. For how many values of $\...
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The intersection of $n$ cylinders in $3$-dimensional space

A standard question in vector calculus is to calculate the volume of the shape carved out by the intersection of $2$ or $3$ perpendicular cylinders of radius $1$ in three dimensional space. Such ...
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Length of intersection of intervals

Can anyone prove this statement? It seems true, but I'm finding it tricky to give a concise proof. Fix $\alpha\in[0,1]$. Let $\mu$ be Lebesgue measure. Define $B(c,r)\equiv[c-r,c+r]$, where $[\cdot, ...
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