A quantitative program for Hadwiger's covering conjecture

DOI10.1007/S11425-010-4087-3MaRDI QIDQ625865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chuan Ming Zong

Publication date 25 February 2011

Published in Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4580

zbMATH Keywords

convex bodyHadwiger's conjectureBorsuk's conjecture\(\beta\)-netBanach-Mazur metricBlaschke's selection theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31)

Abstract: In this article we encode Hadwiger's covering conjecture and Borsuk's partition conjecture into continuous functions defined on the spaces of convex bodies, propose a four-step program to approach them, and obtain some partial results.

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