Displacement-energy subadditivity for plank coverings

Let VV be a finite-dimensional real vector space, let KVK\subset V be a convex body, and let BVB\subset V^* be the unit ball of the dual norm. For the canonical symplectic structure on V×VV\times V^*, write e(K×B)e(K\times B^\circ) for the displacement energy of K×BK\times B^\circ. If finitely many planks cover KK and their relative widths have sum ww, then the displacement-energy conjecture asserts

e(K×B)2w.e(K\times B^\circ)\leq 2w.

This conjectural bound would provide a symplectic approach to Bang-type covering problems; the source does not state a resolution.

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Arseniy Akopyan, Roman Karasev and Fedor Petrov, “Bang's problem and symplectic invariants”, arXiv:1404.0871 (2019).

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