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INTEGER POLYGONS OF GIVEN PERIMETER

Part of: Algebraic combinatorics Polytopes and polyhedra Combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2019

JAMES EAST Open the ORCID record for JAMES EAST [Opens in a new window]  and
RON NILES Open the ORCID record for RON NILES [Opens in a new window]
JAMES EAST*
Affiliation:
Centre for Research in Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia email J.East@WesternSydney.edu.au
RON NILES
Affiliation:
Memverge Inc., San Jose, California 95134, USA email rniles@yahoo.com
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✉J.East@WesternSydney.edu.au
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Abstract

A classical result of Honsberger states that the number of incongruent triangles with integer sides and perimeter $n$ is the nearest integer to $n^{2}/48$ ($n$ even) or $(n+3)^{2}/48$ ($n$ odd). We solve the analogous problem for $m$-gons (for arbitrary but fixed $m\geq 3$) and for polygons (with arbitrary number of sides).

Keywords

enumerationinteger polygonsperimeterdihedral groupsorbit enumeration

MSC classification

Primary: 52B05: Combinatorial properties (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.)
Secondary: 05A17: Partitions of integers 05E18: Group actions on combinatorial structures 05A10: Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 100 , Issue 1 , August 2019 , pp. 131 - 147
Copyright
© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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