The extremal Borsuk number conjecture for normed spaces

Let B(n)B(n) be the maximum, over all norms on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, of the Borsuk number of (Rn,)(\mathbb{R}^n,\left\Vert\cdot\right\Vert), where the Borsuk number is the smallest number of sets of strictly smaller diameter needed to partition every bounded subset. Normed-space Borsuk conjecture. For each integer n3n\geq 3,

B(n)=2n.B(n)=2^n.

This conjecture is motivated by the inequality bX(K)c(K)b_X(K)\leq c(K) and Hadwiger's covering conjecture, which predicts the bound c(K)2nc(K)\leq 2^n for convex bodies. Despite progress, it remains open when n3n\geq 3.

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Yanlu Lian and Senlin Wu, “Divide bounded sets into sets having smaller diameters”, arXiv:2103.10679 (2021).

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