Covering a sphere with congruent great-circle arcs

John H. Conway1, H. T. Croft1
1Gonville and Caius College, and Peterhouse, Cambridge

Tóm tắt

1. Mikusiński ((2), Problem 84) asks: can we express the surface of a sphere (in Euclidean 3-space) as the union of non-overlapping congruent great-circle arcs? We give a partial answer to this question.

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