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Covering the crosspolytope with its smaller homothetic copies

Metric Geometry 2021-03-23 v2

Abstract

In 1957, Hadwiger made the famous conjecture that any convex body of nn-dimensional Euclidean space En\mathbb{E}^n can be covered by 2n2^n smaller positive homothetic copies. Up to now, this conjecture is still open for all n3n\geq 3. Denote by γm(K)\gamma_{m}(K) the smallest positive number λ\lambda such that KK can be covered by mm translations of λK\lambda K. The values of γm(K)\gamma_m(K) for some particular mm and KK have been studied. In this article, we will focus on the situation where KK is the unit crosspolytope of the three-dimensional.

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@article{arxiv.2103.10004,
  title  = {Covering the crosspolytope with its smaller homothetic copies},
  author = {Yanlu Lian and Yuqin zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.10004},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures