The colorful Tverberg partition conjecture

Fix integers r2r\geq 2 and d1d\geq 1. A partition X1XrX_1\sqcup\cdots\sqcup X_r of {1,2,,(r1)(d+1)+1}\{1,2,\dots,(r-1)(d+1)+1\} is colorful if, for every 1kd+11\leq k\leq d+1, the block

Yk={(r1)(k1)+1,,(r1)k+1}Y_k=\{(r-1)(k-1)+1,\dots,(r-1)k+1\}

contains exactly one element of each XiX_i. A partition occurs as a Tverberg partition in a sequence x1,,xNx_1,\dots,x_N if some subsequence of length (r1)(d+1)+1(r-1)(d+1)+1 has the corresponding convex hulls with a common point. Colorful Tverberg partition conjecture. Any colorful partition occurs as a Tverberg partition in every sufficiently long sequence of generic points in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, whereas every noncolorful partition fails to occur in some arbitrarily large point sets.

The conjecture formalizes the claim that asymptotically only colorful Tverberg partitions are forced. The source presents the colorful-partition behavior on the stretched moment curve as understood and records this asymptotic assertion as conjectural.

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Primary source

Florian Frick, “On affine Tverberg-type results without continuous generalization”, arXiv:1702.05466 (2017).

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