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In the concluding remarks of their 1993 published and now famous paper, Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai wrote in particular: "Our construction shows that Borsuk's conjecture is false for d = 1,325 and for every d > 2,014." But, as Bernulf Weiszbach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Thomas Jenrich

A conjecture of Graham (repeated by Erd\H{o}s) asserts that for any set $A \subseteq \mathbb{F}_p \setminus \{0\}$, there is an ordering $a_1, \ldots, a_{|A|}$ of the elements of $A$ such that the partial sums $a_1, a_1+a_2, \ldots,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Noah Kravitz

The well know theorem of Tverberg states that if n > (d+1)(r-1) then one can partition any set of n points in R^d to r disjoint subsets whose convex hulls have a common point. The numbers T(d,r) = (d + 1)(r - 1) + 1 are known as Tverberg…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Micha A. Perles , Moriah Sigron

We show that if A is a large subset of a box in Z^d with dimensions L_1 >= L_2 >= ... >= L_d which are all reasonably large, then |A + A| > 2^{d/48}|A|. By combining this with Chang's quantitative version of Freiman's theorem, we prove a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ben Green

A family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ shatters a set $A \subseteq [n]$ if for every $A' \subseteq A$ there is an $F \in \mathcal{F}$ such that $F \cap A=A'$. We develop a framework to analyze $f(n,k,d)$, the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Noga Alon , Varun Sivashankar , Daniel G. Zhu

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate relations between Gromov-Hausdorff distance properties and the Borsuk Conjecture. The Borsuk number of a given bounded metric space $X$ is the infimum of cardinal numbers $n$ such that $X$ can be…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Alexander Ivanov , Alexey Tuzhilin

In this paper we investigate three unsolved conjectures in geometric combinatorics, namely Falconer's distance set conjecture, the dimension of Furstenburg sets, and Erdos's ring conjecture. We formulate natural $\delta$-discretized…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nets Hawk Katz , Terence Tao

In 2013 Andriy V. Bondarenko showed how to construct a two-distance counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture from any strongly regular graph whose vertex set is not the union of at most $f+1$ cliques (sets of pairwise adjacent vertices) where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Thomas Jenrich

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

A subset $S$ of $\mathbb R^d$ has the Borsuk property if it can be decomposed into at most $d+1$ parts of diameter smaller than $S$. This is an important geometric property, inspired by a conjecture of Borsuk from the 1930s, which has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Gyivan López-Campos , Frédéric Meunier , Jorge L. Ramírez Alfonsín

Kurepa's conjecture states that there is no odd prime $p$ that divides $!p=0!+1!+\cdots+(p-1)!$. We search for a counterexample to this conjecture for all $p<2^{34}$. We introduce new optimization techniques and perform the computation…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Vladica Andrejić , Milos Tatarevic

We give a short survey of problems and results on (1) diameter graphs and hypergraphs, and (2) geometric Ramsey theory. We also make some modest contributions to both areas. Extending a well known theorem of Kahn and Kalai which disproved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Peter Frankl , János Pach , Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl

We show that the Dual Borel Conjecture implies that ${\mathfrak d}> \aleph_1$ and find some topological characterizations of perfectly meager and universally meager sets.

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tomek Bartoszynski

A set $A$ is MSTD (more-sum-than-difference) if $|A+A|>|A-A|$. Though MSTD sets are rare, Martin and O'Bryant proved that there exists a positive constant lower bound for the proportion of MSTD subsets of $\{1,2,\ldots ,r\}$ as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Hung Viet Chu , Noah Luntzlara , Steven J. Miller , Lily Shao

In this paper we affirm Br\"{u}ck conjecture provided $f$ is of hyper-order less than one by studying the infinite hyper-order of solutions of a complex differential equation.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Guowei Zhang

In 1993, Kahn and Kalai famously constructed a sequence of finite sets in $d$-dimensional Euclidean spaces that cannot be partitioned into less than $(1.203\ldots+o(1))^{\sqrt{d}}$ parts of smaller diameter. Their method works not only for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Andrei M. Raigorodskii , Arsenii Sagdeev

Let us say that an element of a given family $\A$ of subsets of $\R^d$ can be reconstructed using $n$ test sets if there exist $T_1,...,T_n \subset \R^d$ such that whenever $A,B\in \A$ and the Lebesgue measures of $A \cap T_i$ and $B \cap…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Márton Elekes , Tamás Keleti , András Máthé

Let $f_1,\dots,f_k\in\mathbb{R}[X]$ be polynomials of degree at most $d$ with $f_1(0)=\dots=f_k(0)=0$. We show that there is an integer $n<x$ such that the fractional parts $\|f_i(n)\|\ll x^{c/k}$ for all $1\le i\le k$ and for some constant…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-25 James Maynard

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

Reed conjectured that for every $\varepsilon>0$ and every integer $\Delta$, there exists $g$ such that the fractional total chromatic number of every graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ and girth at least $g$ is at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-04 Frantisek Kardos , Daniel Kral , Jean-Sebastien Sereni