The spherical Goodman covering conjecture for caps

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Let r1,…,rnr_1,\dots,r_n be the spherical radii of caps lying on a hemisphere of the unit dd-sphere. Assume that no great sphere divides the caps into two non-empty sets without intersecting any cap.

Spherical Goodman conjecture. The given caps can be covered by a cap of spherical radius

r=∑i=1nri.r=\sum_{i=1}^n r_i.

This is proposed as the spherical relative of the cited Goodman theorem and remains open in the supplied text. The hemisphere assumption is noted there to be indispensable.

References

Primary source

Zilin Jiang and Alexandr Polyanskii, “Proof of László Fejes Tóth's zone conjecture”, arXiv:1703.10550 (2017).

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