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On Keller's conjecture in dimension seven

Metric Geometry 2014-05-26 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

A cube tiling of Rd\mathbb{R}^d is a family of pairwise disjoint cubes [0,1)d+T={[0,1)d+t:tT}[0,1)^d+T=\{[0,1)^d+t:t\in T\} such that tT([0,1)d+t)=Rd\bigcup_{t\in T}([0,1)^d+t)=\mathbb{R}^d. Two cubes [0,1)d+t[0,1)^d+t, [0,1)d+s[0,1)^d+s are called a twin pair if tjsj=1|t_j-s_j|=1 for some j[d]={1,,d}j\in [d]=\{1,\ldots, d\} and ti=sit_i=s_i for every i[d]{j}i\in [d]\setminus \{j\}. In 19301930, Keller conjectured that in every cube tiling of Rd\mathbb{R}^d there is a twin pair. Keller's conjecture is true for dimensions d6d\leq 6 and false for all dimensions d8d\geq 8. For d=7d=7 the conjecture is still open. Let xRdx\in \mathbb{R}^d, i[d]i\in [d], and let L(T,x,i)L(T,x,i) be the set of all iith coordinates tit_i of vectors tTt\in T such that ([0,1)d+t)([0,1]d+x)([0,1)^d+t)\cap ([0,1]^d+x)\neq \emptyset and tixit_i\leq x_i. It is known that if L(T,x,i)2|L(T,x,i)|\leq 2 for some xR7x\in \mathbb{R}^7 and every i[7]i\in [7] or L(T,x,i)6|L(T,x,i)|\geq 6 for some xR7x\in \mathbb{R}^7 and i[7]i\in [7], then Keller's conjecture is true for d=7d=7. In the present paper we show that it is also true for d=7d=7 if L(T,x,i)=5|L(T,x,i)|=5 for some xR7x\in \mathbb{R}^7 and i[7]i\in [7]. Thus, if there is a counterexample to Keller's conjecture in dimension seven, then L(T,x,i){3,4}|L(T,x,i)|\in \{3,4\} for some xR7x\in \mathbb{R}^7 and i[7]i\in [7].

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@article{arxiv.1401.4689,
  title  = {On Keller's conjecture in dimension seven},
  author = {Andrzej P. Kisielewicz and Magdalena Łysakowska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.4689},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

37 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1304.1639

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