On a conjecture of Kömlos about signed sums of vectors inside the sphere

DOI10.1016/S0195-6698(88)80024-6MaRDI QIDQ1103624zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1988

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6698(88)80024-6

zbMATH Keywords

conjecture of Kömlossignsvectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other designs, configurations (05B30)

Review text

Let \(|.|\) and \(\|.\|\) denote the Euclidean and the \(L^{\infty}\)-norm on \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) respectively. The conjecture of Kömlos says that for each set of vectors \(v_ 1,...,v_ k\in {\mathbb{R}}^ n\) with \(| v_ i| \leq 1\) there is a set of signs \(\epsilon_ i=\pm 1\) with \(\| \epsilon_ 1v_ 1+...+\epsilon_ kv_ k\| \leq L\) and L being independent of n. The author proves a result giving some evidence against this conjecture, and he conjectures \(L\geq c\sqrt{\log n}\) with c being independent of n.

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