English

The Resolution of Keller's Conjecture

Combinatorics 2023-04-19 v5 Discrete Mathematics Logic in Computer Science Metric Geometry

Abstract

We consider three graphs, G7,3G_{7,3}, G7,4G_{7,4}, and G7,6G_{7,6}, 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 27=1282^7 = 128. 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 R7\mathbb{R}^7 contains a facesharing pair of cubes. Since a faceshare-free unit cube tiling of R8\mathbb{R}^8 exists (which we also verify), this completely resolves Keller's conjecture.

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Cite

@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

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