A solution to the pyjama problem

DOI10.1007/S00222-014-0571-7MaRDI QIDQ887952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Freddie Manners

Publication date 4 November 2015

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1514

zbMATH Keywords

pyjama problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Abstract: The "pyjama stripe" is the subset of $mathbb{R}^2$ consisting of a vertical strip of width $2varepsilon$ around every integer $x$-coordinate. The "pyjama problem" asks whether finitely many rotations of the pyjama stripe around the origin can cover the plane. The purpose of this paper is to answer this question in the affirmative, for all positive $varepsilon$. The problem is reduced to a statement closely related to Furstenberg's $imes2,,imes3$ Theorem from topological dynamics, and is proved by analogy with that result.

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