{"title":"Parallel covering a regular hexagon with squares","authors":"Ziyi Guo, Zhanjun Su","doi":"10.1007/s10474-026-01591-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Denote by <i>H</i> a regular hexagon with sides of length 1. Let <i>S</i> be a square with a side parallel to a side of <i>H</i> and let <span>\\(\\{S_{n}\\}\\)</span> be a collection of the homothetic copies of <i>S</i>. In this note a tight lower bound of the sum of the areas of squares from <span>\\(\\{S_{n}\\}\\)</span> that can parallel cover <i>H</i> is determined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50894,"journal":{"name":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","volume":"178 1","pages":"137 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta Mathematica Hungarica","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10474-026-01591-1","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Denote by H a regular hexagon with sides of length 1. Let S be a square with a side parallel to a side of H and let \(\{S_{n}\}\) be a collection of the homothetic copies of S. In this note a tight lower bound of the sum of the areas of squares from \(\{S_{n}\}\) that can parallel cover H is determined.
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Acta Mathematica Hungarica is devoted to publishing research articles of top quality in all areas of pure and applied mathematics as well as in theoretical computer science. The journal is published yearly in three volumes (two issues per volume, in total 6 issues) in both print and electronic formats. Acta Mathematica Hungarica (formerly Acta Mathematica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae) was founded in 1950 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.