Makeev's concurrent-planes conjecture for regular simplices

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Let F:Sn1RF:S^{n-1}\to\mathbb{R} be an odd function, and let ΣnRn\Sigma_n\subset\mathbb{R}^n be a regular simplex of edge-length 11, with vertices v1,,vn+1v_1,\ldots,v_{n+1}. For ASO(n)A\in SO(n) and each 1i<jn+11\leq i<j\leq n+1, consider the (n1)(n-1)-plane

{xRnx,A(vjvi)=F(A(vjvi))}.\{x\in\mathbb{R}^n\mid \langle x,A(v_j-v_i)\rangle=F(A(v_j-v_i))\}.

Makeev's conjecture. There exists an ASO(n)A\in SO(n) such that all n(n+1)/2n(n+1)/2 of these (n1)(n-1)-planes are concurrent. The conjecture is a reformulation of Makeev's universal-cover conjecture in terms of continuous functions and supporting planes; the source gives no resolution.

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Tamas Hausel, Endre Makai and Andras Szucs, “Inscribing cubes and covering by rhombic dodecahedra via equivariant topology”, arXiv:math/9906066 (2000).

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