The Resolution of Keller's Conjecture
Combinatorics
2023-04-19 v5 Discrete Mathematics
Logic in Computer Science
Metric Geometry
Abstract
We consider three graphs, , , and , related to Keller's conjecture in dimension 7. The conjecture is false for this dimension if and only if at least one of the graphs contains a clique of size . We present an automated method to solve this conjecture by encoding the existence of such a clique as a propositional formula. We apply satisfiability solving combined with symmetry-breaking techniques to determine that no such clique exists. This result implies that every unit cube tiling of contains a facesharing pair of cubes. Since a faceshare-free unit cube tiling of exists (which we also verify), this completely resolves Keller's conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.1910.03740,
title = {The Resolution of Keller's Conjecture},
author = {Joshua Brakensiek and Marijn Heule and John Mackey and David Narváez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03740},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
25 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables; IJCAR 2020