Hadwiger–Boltyanski illumination conjecture for convex bodies

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Let K\mathbf{K} be a dd-dimensional convex body in Ed\mathbb E^d, where d≥3d\geq 3, and let I(K)I(\mathbf{K}) denote the smallest number of directions in Sd−1\mathbb S^{d-1} that illuminate every boundary point of K\mathbf{K}. Illumination conjecture. The illumination number satisfies

I(K)≤2d,I(\mathbf{K})\leq 2^d,

and equality holds only if K\mathbf{K} is an affine dd-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.

References

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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