A quantitative program for Hadwiger's covering conjecture

DOI10.1007/S11425-010-4087-3zbMATH Open1237.52014arXiv0911.4580OpenAlexW2073482379WikidataQ123190388 ScholiaQ123190388MaRDI QIDQ625865FDOQ625865

Authors: Chuan Ming Zong 

Publication date: 25 February 2011

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

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.

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

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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)

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