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Inscribing a regular crosspolytope

Algebraic Topology 2009-07-21 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we prove that it is possible to inscribe a regular crosspolytope (multidimensional octahedron) into a smooth convex body in Rd\mathbb R^d, where dd is an odd prime power. Some generalizations of this statement are also proved.

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@article{arxiv.0905.2671,
  title  = {Inscribing a regular crosspolytope},
  author = {R. N. Karasev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2671},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

The reference to Schnirelmann is corrected. The previous results on inscribing are discussed in more detail

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