The complex plank problem, revisited

DOI10.1007/S00454-022-00423-7MaRDI QIDQ6151034zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Oscar Ortega-Moreno

Publication date 9 February 2024

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03961

zbMATH Keywords

functional analysisdiscrete geometrycomplex geometrycovering problemsplank problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05) Inequalities and extremum problems in real or complex geometry (51M16) Discrete geometry (52C99)

Abstract: Ball's complex plank theorem states that if $v_1,dots,v_n$ are unit vectors in $mathbb{C}^d$, and $t_1,dots,t_n$, non-negative numbers satisfying $su{m}_{k=1}^n{t}_k^2=1,$ then there exists a unit vector $v$ in $mathbb{C}^d$ for which $|langle{v}_k,vangle|geq{t}_k$ for every $k$. Here we present a streamlined version of Ball's original proof.

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