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We show that for fixed $d>3$ and $n$ growing to infinity there are at least $(n!)^{d-2 \pm o(1)}$ different labeled combinatorial types of $d$-polytopes with $n$ vertices. This is about the square of the previous best lower bounds. As an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Arnau Padrol , Eva Philippe , Francisco Santos

Let $F\in\mathbb{C}[x,y,s,t]$ be an irreducible constant-degree polynomial, and let $A,B,C,D\subset\mathbb{C}$ be finite sets of size $n$. We show that $F$ vanishes on at most $O(n^{8/3})$ points of the Cartesian product $A\times B\times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Orit E. Raz , Micha Sharir , Frank de Zeeuw

Blind and Mani (1987) proved that the entire combinatorial structure (the vertex-facet incidences) of a simple convex polytope is determined by its abstract graph. Their proof is not constructive. Kalai (1988) found a short, elegant, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Volker Kaibel

It is shown that, for each $d \geq 4$, there exists an integral convex polytope $\mathcal{P}$ of dimension $d$ such that each of the coefficients of $n, n^{2}, \ldots, n^{d-2}$ of its Ehrhart polynomial $i(\mathcal{P},n)$ is negative.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Takayuki Hibi , Akihiro Higashitani , Akiyoshi Tsuchiya , Koutarou Yoshida

We suggest a tight inequality for norms in $d$-dimensional space $l_p $ which has simple formulation but appears hard to prove. We give a proof for $d=3$ and provide a detailed numerical check for $d\leq 200$ confirming the conjecture. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 A. S. Holevo , A. V. Utkin

In this note we sketch a proof of a fundamental conjecture, the codimension-three conjecture, for microdifferential holonomic systems with regular singularities. It states that any regular holonomic E-module extends beyond a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Masaki Kashiwara , Kari Vilonen

The Fuglede conjecture states that a set is spectral if and only if it tiles by translation. The conjecture was disproved by T. Tao for dimensions 5 and higher by giving a counterexample in $\mathbb{Z}_3^5$. We present a computer program…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Philipp Birklbauer

Provan and Billera introduced notions of (weak) decomposability of simplicial complexes as a means of attempting to prove polynomial upper bounds on the diameter of the facet-ridge graph of a simplicial polytope. Recently, De Loera and Klee…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Nicolai Hähnle , Steven Klee , Vincent Pilaud

In 1991, Craig Gotsman and Nathan Linial conjectured that for all $n$ and $d$, the average sensitivity of a degree-$d$ polynomial threshold function on $n$ variables is maximized by the degree-$d$ symmetric polynomial which computes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Brynmor Chapman

A configuration of particles confined to a sphere is balanced if it is in equilibrium under all force laws (that act between pairs of points with strength given by a fixed function of distance). It is straightforward to show that every…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Henry Cohn , Noam D. Elkies , Abhinav Kumar , Achill Schuermann

We prove the macroscopic cousins of three conjectures: 1) a conjectural bound of the simplicial volume of a Riemannian manifold in the presence of a lower scalar curvature bound, 2) the conjecture that rationally essential manifolds do not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Sabine Braun , Roman Sauer

A well known result by Lagarias and Ziegler states that there are finitely many equivalence classes of d-dimensional lattice polytopes having volume at most K, for fixed constants d and K. We describe an algorithm for the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Gabriele Balletti

In 1992, Kalai and Kleitman proved the first subexponential upper bound for the diameters of convex polyhedra. Eisenbrand et al. proved this bound holds for connected layer families, a novel approach to analyzing polytope diameters. Very…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-19 J. Mackenzie Gallagher , Edward D. Kim

We prove the following sparse approximation result for polytopes. Assume that $Q$ is a polytope in John's position. Then there exist at most $2d$ vertices of $Q$ whose convex hull $Q'$ satisfies $Q \subseteq - 2d^2 \, Q'$. As a consequence,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Víctor Hugo Almendra-Hernández , Gergely Ambrus , Matthew Kendall

We prove the following results for projective klt pairs of dimension $3$ over an algebraically closed field of char $p>5$: the cone theorem, the base point free theorem, the contraction theorem, finiteness of minimal models, termination…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-17 Caucher Birkar , Joe Waldron

The well-known $abc$-conjecture concerns triples $(a,b,c)$ of non-zero integers that are coprime and satisfy ${a+b+c=0}$. The strong $n$-conjecture is a generalisation to $n$ summands where integer solutions of the equation ${a_1 + \ldots +…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Rupert Hölzl , Sören Kleine , Frank Stephan

We characterize the three-dimensional spaces admitting at least six or at least seven equidistant points. In particular, we show the existence of $C^\infty$ norms on $\R^3$ admitting six equidistant points, which refutes a conjecture of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Achill Schuermann , Konrad Swanepoel

The colourful simplicial depth problem in dimension d is to find a configuration of (d+1) sets of (d+1) points such that the origin is contained in the convex hull of each set (colour) but contained in a minimal number of colourful…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Antoine Deza , Tamon Stephen , Feng Xie

We show that the number of lattice directions in which a d-dimensional convex body in R^d has minimum width is at most 3^d-1, with equality only for the regular cross-polytope. This is deduced from a sharpened version of the 3^d-theorem due…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Jan Draisma , Tyrrell B. McAllister , Benjamin Nill

In this work, the classical Borsuk conjecture is discussed, which states that any set of diameter 1 in the Euclidean space $ {\mathbb R}^d $ can be divided into $ d+1 $ parts of smaller diameter. During the last two decades, many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Andrei Kupavskii , Andrei Raigorodskii