Homological sphere conjecture for differences of Minkowski sums

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Let AA and BB be convex bodies in Rn\mathbb R^n. The set (A+B)∖A(A+B)\setminus A is the difference between a Minkowski sum and one summand. Homological sphere conjecture. The set (A+B)∖A(A+B)\setminus A is either empty, acyclic, or has the homology of a sphere of dimension k∈[0,n−1]k\in[0,n-1]. This conjecture asks for an analogue of the paper's acyclicity result for A∖(A+B)A\setminus(A+B); its resolution is not given here.

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Andreas F. Holmsen and Roman Karasev, “Colorful theorems for strong convexity”, arXiv:1509.08783 (2016).

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