Knaster's problem for points on a sphere

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Let Sd1S^{d-1} be a unit sphere in Rd\mathbb R^d. Suppose we are given dd points x1,,xdSd1x_1, \ldots, x_d\in S^{d-1} and a continuous function f:Sd1Rf: S^{d-1}\to \mathbb R. Knaster's conjecture. There exists a rotation ρSO(d)\rho\in SO(d) such that

f(ρ(x1))=f(ρ(x2))==f(ρ(xd)).f(\rho(x_1)) = f(\rho(x_2)) = \dots = f(\rho(x_d)).

The conjecture is known to hold for d=3d=3, but counterexamples are known for certain functions and point sets when d=61d=61 and for all d67d\ge 67; its general form is therefore refuted.

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Primary source

R. N. Karasev, “A note on Makeev's conjectures”, arXiv:1002.4070 (2010).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2010). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0908.3097, arXiv:0905.2047, arXiv:0905.2671.

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