Hadwiger–Boltyanski illumination conjecture for convex bodies
Hadwiger–Boltyanski illumination conjecture for convex bodies
Let be a -dimensional convex body in , where , and let denote the smallest number of directions in that illuminate every boundary point of . Illumination conjecture. The illumination number satisfies
and equality holds only if is an affine -cube. This is a longstanding open problem in discrete geometry, known to be solved only in the plane; the conjecture is also related to the equivalent covering and separation conjectures.
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Primary source
Károly Bezdek and Zsolt Lángi, “From spherical to Euclidean illumination”, arXiv:1909.11884 (2019).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1602.06040.
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