Bezdek–Schneider's spherical inradius covering conjecture

Let a cap on the unit sphere have spherical radius rr. A convex spherical domain is a domain in which any two points can be joined by an arc of a great circle lying in the domain; its inradius is the spherical radius of the largest cap it contains. Suppose the cap is covered by a collection of convex spherical domains.

Bezdek–Schneider's conjecture. The total inradius of the domains is at least rr.

The conjecture is attributed to Bezdek and Schneider. The supplied text says it was solved for rπ/2r\geq\pi/2, so the general statement remains open.

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

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