Makeev's universal covering conjecture for convex bodies

Let KK be a convex body in Rd\mathbb{R}^d of diameter at most 11. For a non-degenerate simplex

Δ=conv{a0,a1,,ad}\Delta=\operatorname{conv}\{a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_d\}

of diameter at most 11 satisfying a0++ad=0a_0+\cdots+a_d=0, define its Δ\Delta-zonotope by

RΔ=[0,a0]+[0,a1]++[0,ad].R_\Delta=[0,a_0]+[0,a_1]+\cdots+[0,a_d].

Makeev's conjecture. Every convex body KK in Rd\mathbb{R}^d of diameter 1\leq 1 can be covered by a translate of RΔR_\Delta for some non-degenerate simplex Δ\Delta of diameter 1\leq 1. This is a universal-covering problem for convex bodies and generalizes the planar covering result by a suitable Δ\Delta-zonotope. The source presents the assertion as a problem of Makeev; no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Primary source

Rade T. Živaljević, “Illumination complexes, Δ-zonotopes, and the polyhedral curtain theorem”, arXiv:1307.5138 (2013).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (1999–2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/9906066.

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