Towards Hadwiger's conjecture via Bourgain Slicing

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Authors: Marcelo Campos, Peter van Hintum, Robert Morris, Marius Tiba 

Publication date: 22 June 2022

Abstract: In 1957, Hadwiger conjectured that every convex body in $mathbb{R}^d$ can be covered by $2^d$ translates of its interior. For over 60 years, the best known bound was of the form $O(4^{d}sqrtdlogd)$, but this was recently improved by a factor of $e^{Omega(sqrtd)}$ by Huang, Slomka, Tkocz and Vritsiou. In this note we take another step towards Hadwiger's conjecture by deducing an almost-exponential improvement from the recent breakthrough work of Chen, Klartag and Lehec on Bourgain's slicing problem. More precisely, we prove that, for any convex body $Ksubsetmathbb{R}^d$, ${\displaystyle }$exp�igg( - Omega�igg( frac{d}{(log d)^8} �igg) �igg) cdot 4^d${\displaystyle }$ translates of $extint(K)$ suffice to cover $K$. We also show that a positive answer to Bourgain's slicing problem would imply an exponential improvement for Hadwiger's conjecture.

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