Boltyanskii's illumination conjecture for convex bodies

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Let K∈KdK\in\mathcal{K}^d be a convex body, and say that a set of directions illuminates KK if every point of bd⁡K\operatorname{bd}K is illuminated by at least one direction in the set; denote the smallest possible number of directions by Ill⁡(K)\operatorname{Ill}(K). Illumination conjecture. Every convex body K∈KdK\in\mathcal{K}^d can be illuminated by at most 2d2^d directions, and by fewer than 2d2^d directions if KK is not a linear image of a dd-dimensional cube. This is a central problem in convex geometry concerning the illumination number of convex bodies. The source presents it as Boltyanskii's conjecture; no resolution is supplied in the text.

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Illya Ivanov, “Illuminating Primitive Polytopes”, arXiv:2607.08944 (2026).

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