An optimal plank theorem

DOI10.1090/PROC/15228MaRDI QIDQ5150195zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oscar Ortega-Moreno

Publication date 10 February 2021

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04126

zbMATH Keywords

covering by planksinverse eigenvectorTóth's zone conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05)

Abstract: We give a new proof of Fejes T'oth's zone conjecture: for any sequence $v_1,v_2,\mathrm{...},v_n$ of unit vectors in a real Hilbert space $mathcalH$, there exists a unit vector $v$ in $mathcalH$ such that �egin{equation*} |langle v_k,v angle| geq sin(pi/2n) end{equation*} for all $k$. This can be seen as sharp version of the plank theorem for real Hilbert spaces. Our approach is inspired by Ball's solution to the complex plank problem and thus unifies both the complex and the real solution under the same method.

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