The sparse zonotope approximation conjecture

Let KRdK\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d be a zonotope and let 0<ε120<\varepsilon\leq\frac12. A zonotope is a Minkowski sum of finitely many line segments; its number of segments is the number of summands. Sparse zonotope approximation conjecture. There exists a zonotope QQ with O(d/ε2)O(d/\varepsilon^2) segments such that

QK(1+ε)Q.Q\subseteq K\subseteq(1+\varepsilon)Q.

This is the main open question about approximating a dd-dimensional zonotope by one with only linearly many segments, and it is attributed in the source to the AIM workshop.

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Laurel Heck, Victor Reis and Thomas Rothvoss, “The Vector Balancing Constant for Zonotopes”, arXiv:2210.16460 (2022).

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