Feder–Subi conjecture on antipodal paths with few colour changes

From papers

Let QnQ_n) be the nn-dimensional hypercube, with edge set E(Qn)E(Q_n), and consider a 2-colouring of its edges. Two vertices are antipodal if they differ in every coordinate.

Feder–Subi conjecture. Every 2-colouring of E(Qn)E(Q_n) contains a path between some pair of antipodal vertices which changes colour at most once.

This strengthens Norine's conjecture, which asks only for a monochromatic path between some pair of antipodal vertices. The conjecture was proved in according to the supplied status evidence.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Lawrence Hollom, “Hypercube geodesics with few colour changes”, arXiv:2605.20184 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1504.05987, arXiv:1301.2195.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.