Zonotope reformulation of the Lonely Runner Conjecture for TnT_{\mathbf n}

Let nZ>0d\mathbf{n}\in\mathbb{Z}^d_{>0} be a velocity vector, and let

Tn=Z(e1,,ed,3n).T_{\mathbf n}=\operatorname{\mathcal{Z}}(\mathbf e_1,\ldots,\mathbf e_d,3\mathbf n).

Here an interior lattice point means a point wint(Tn)Zd\mathbf w\in\operatorname{int}(T_{\mathbf n})\cap\mathbb{Z}^d, and ca(Tn,w)\operatorname{ca}(T_{\mathbf n},\mathbf w) is its coefficient of asymmetry. Zonotope reformulation. For every velocity vector nZ>0d\mathbf n\in\mathbb{Z}^d_{>0}, there exists an interior lattice point wint(Tn)Zd\mathbf w\in\operatorname{int}(T_{\mathbf n})\cap\mathbb{Z}^d such that

ca(Tn,w)d.\operatorname{ca}(T_{\mathbf n},\mathbf w)\leq d.

The paper states that this is equivalent to the Lonely Runner Conjecture after replacing the unbounded zonohedron by the suitable zonotope TnT_{\mathbf n}. It is consequently open in general.

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Matthias Beck and Matthias Schymura, “Deep lattice points in zonotopes, lonely runners, and lonely rabbits”, arXiv:2301.12182 (2023).

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