Bachoc–Robins conjecture on optimal density for tiling norms

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Let ∥⋅∥\|\cdot\| be a norm on Rn\mathbb{R}^n whose unit ball tiles Rn\mathbb{R}^n by translation. Let m1(Rn,∥⋅∥)m_1(\mathbb{R}^n,\|\cdot\|) denote the supremum of the upper densities of measurable subsets of Rn\mathbb{R}^n avoiding distance 11. Bachoc–Robins conjecture.

m1(Rn,∥⋅∥)=12n.m_1(\mathbb{R}^n,\|\cdot\|)=\frac{1}{2^n}.

The construction from a translational tiling gives a distance-1-avoiding set of density 2−n2^{-n}, and the conjecture asserts that this construction is optimal. The source does not report a resolution.

References

Primary source

Thomas Bellitto, Arnaud Pêcher and Antoine Sédillot, “On the density of sets of the Euclidean plane avoiding distance 1”, arXiv:1810.00960 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1708.00291.

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