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In 1933, Borsuk conjectured that any bounded d-dimensional set of nonzero diameter can be broken into d + 1 parts of smaller diameter. This conjecture was disproved for large enough d, though it is true for low dimensional cases. The paper…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Dian Yang

In 1933 Karol Borsuk asked whether each bounded set in the n-dimensional Euclidean space can be divided into n+1 parts of smaller diameter. The diameter of a set is defined as the supremum (least upper bound) of the distances of contained…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-21 Thomas Jenrich

Borsuk's conjecture states that any bounded set in R^n can be partitioned into n+1 sets of smaller diameter. It is known to be false for all n bigger or equal to 323. Here we show that Borsuk's conjecture fails in dimensions 321 and 322.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oleg Pikhurko

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

Borsuk conjectured that every n-dimensional bounded set of positive diameter can be partitioned into n+1 sets of smaller diameters. This conjecture was proved for n=2 by Borsuk, for n=3 first by Eggleston, and disproved for n > 297 by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-12 Zsolt Langi

In 1933, Borsuk made a conjecture that every $n$-dimensional bounded set can be divided into $n+1$ subsets of smaller diameter. Up to now, the problem is still open for $4\leq n\leq 63$. In this paper, we firstly discuss the Banach-Mazur…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Jun Wang , Fei Xue

In 1933, K. Borsuk proposed the following problem: Can every bounded set in $\mathbb{E}^n$ be divided into $n+1$ subsets of smaller diameters? In 1965, V. G. Boltyanski and I. T. Gohberg made the following conjecture: Every bounded set in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Jun Wang , Fei Xue , Chuanming Zong

In 1933, Borsuk proposed the following problem: Can every bounded set in $\mathbb{E}^n$ be divided into $n+1$ subsets of smaller diameters? This problem has been studied by many authors, and a lot of partial results have been discovered. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Chuanming Zong

In 1933, Karol Borsuk asked whether each bounded set in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space can be divided into $n$+1 parts of smaller diameter. Because it would not make sense otherwise, one usually assumes that he just forgot to require…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Thomas Jenrich

In the papers Ziegler(2001) and Goldstein(2012) it was previously shown that any subset of the Boolean cube $ S \subset \{0,1\}^n $ for $ n \leq 9 $ can be partitioned into $n+1$ parts of smaller diameter, i.e., the Borsuk conjecture holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Igor Batmanov , Vsevolod Voronov

In this paper we answer Larman's question on Borsuk's conjecture for two-distance sets. We find a two-distance set consisting of 416 points on the unit sphere in the dimension 65 which cannot be partitioned into 83 parts of smaller…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Andriy V. Bondarenko

Let $f(d)$ be the smallest number so that every set in $R^d$ of diameter 1 can be partitioned into $f(d)$ sets of diameter smaller than 1. Borsuk's conjecture was that $f(d)\! =\!d\!+\!1$. We prove that $f(d)\! \ge\! (1.2)^{\sqrt d}$ for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Jeff Kahn , Gil Kalai

In the present paper, we study problems related to the classical Borsuk's problem. Recall that the Borsuk's problem consists in finding the smallest number $ f(n) $ of parts of smaller diameter into which an arbitrary set of diameter 1 in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Arthur Igorevich Bikeev , Andrei Mikhailovich Raigorodskii

The Borsuk number $b(n)$ of $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$ is the smallest integer such that any set $F \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ of unit diameter can be partitioned into $b(n)$ subsets of strictly smaller diameter. For $n=4$,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Alexander Tolmachev , Vsevolod Voronov

The Borsuk number of a set S of diameter d >0 in Euclidean n-space is the smallest value of m such that S can be partitioned into m sets of diameters less than d. Our aim is to generalize this notion in the following way: The k-fold Borsuk…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-05 M. Hujter , Z. Lángi

The Borsuk problem asks for the smallest number of subsets with strictly smaller diameters into which any bounded set in the $d$-dimensional space can be decomposed. It is a classical problem in combinatorial geometry that has been subject…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 José Cáceres , Delia Garijo , Alberto Márquez , Rodrigo I. Silveira

Classical Borsuk problem asks about the minimal number of closed subsets of smaller diameter necessary to partition every compact in the Euclidean space. Topological version of the Borsuk problem is discussed.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yan Soibelman

Every graph G can be embedded in a Euclidean space as a two-distance set. This allows us to reformulate the analogue of Borsuk's conjecture for two-distance sets in terms of graphs. This conjecture remains open for dimensions from 4 to 63.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Oleg R. Musin

Quantitative estimates related to the classical Borsuk problem of splitting set in Euclidean space into subsets of smaller diameter are considered. For a given $k$ there is a minimal diameter of subsets at which there exists a covering with…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Alexander Tolmachev , Dmitry Protasov , Vsevolod Voronov

The Kneser-Poulsen conjecture says that if a finite collection of balls in a d-dimensional Euclidean space is rearranged so that the distance between each pair of centers does not get smaller, then the volume of the union of these balls…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-28 Igors Gorbovickis
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