Boundary convexity conjecture for the Beer index

Let SR2S\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2 be a measurable set, and let b(S)\operatorname{b}(S) denote its Beer index and λ\lambda planar Lebesgue measure. Boundary convexity conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0, there is a δ>0\delta>0 such that if

b(S)ε,\operatorname{b}(S)\geq\varepsilon,

then there is a bounded convex set CR2C\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2 satisfying

λ(C)δλ(S)andCS.\lambda(C)\geq\delta\lambda(S)\qquad\text{and}\qquad\partial C\subseteq S.

The conjecture concerns arbitrary planar sets, including sets with no convex subset of positive measure. It is known for p-componentwise simply connected sets, where δ\delta can be chosen as a constant multiple of ε\varepsilon; the general assertion remains open.

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Martin Balko, Vít Jelínek, Pavel Valtr and Bartosz Walczak, “On the Beer index of convexity and its variants”, arXiv:1412.1769 (2016).

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