The cyclic-group Borsuk covering conjecture

For m2m\geq 2 and d0d\geq 0, let covZm(d)\operatorname{cov}_{\mathbb{Z}_m}(d) denote the Zm\mathbb{Z}_m-covering number of a classifying space EdZmE_d\mathbb{Z}_m. The general lower bound is m+dcovZm(d)m+d\leq \operatorname{cov}_{\mathbb{Z}_m}(d).

Cyclic-group Borsuk covering conjecture.

covZm(d)=m+d.\operatorname{cov}_{\mathbb{Z}_m}(d)=m+d.

This is a less general conjecture that may remain true even if the generalized Borsuk covering-number conjecture fails. The paper states that both conjectures are open and points to computational work in dimensions 22 and 33.

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Francisco Martinez-Figueroa, “Generalized Borsuk Graphs”, arXiv:2110.06453 (2021).

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