Hadwiger's conjecture for cap bodies
Metric Geometry
2025-12-16 v2
Abstract
Hadwiger's covering conjecture is that every -dimensional convex body can be covered by at most of its smaller positive homothetic copies, with copies required only for affine images of -cube. Convex hull of a ball and an external point is called a spike. The union of finitely many spikes of a ball is a cap body if it is a convex set. In this note, we confirm the Hadwiger's conjecture for the class of cap bodies in all dimensions, bridging recently established cases of and large . The proof uses probabilistic techniques, and additionally, for moderate dimensions , integer linear programming performed with computer assistance.
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@article{arxiv.2510.25968,
title = {Hadwiger's conjecture for cap bodies},
author = {Andrii Arman and Jaskaran Singh Kaire and Andriy Prymak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.25968},
year = {2025}
}
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10 pages