Bang's affine plank conjecture

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Let CC be a convex body, and let P1,…,PnP_1,\ldots,P_n be planks covering it. If HiH_i is parallel to the boundary hyperplanes of PiP_i, define the relative width of PiP_i by w(Pi)/w(C,Hi)w(P_i)/w(C,H_i), where w(C,Hi)w(C,H_i) is the width of CC in the direction of HiH_i. Bang's affine plank conjecture. The sum of the relative widths is at least 11:

∑i=1nw(Pi)w(C,Hi)≥1.\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{w(P_i)}{w(C,H_i)}\geq 1.

This affine-invariant strengthening of Tarski's plank problem is explicitly described later in the survey as an important open problem in convex geometry.

References

Primary source

William Verreault, “Plank theorems and their applications: a survey”, arXiv:2203.05540 (2025).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2201.08823, arXiv:1604.00456, arXiv:1602.06040, arXiv:1402.0538, arXiv:0903.4637.

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