Hadwiger's problem for bodies with enough sub-Gaussian marginals

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Main Authors: Galicer, Daniel, Singer, Joaquín
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Singer, Joaquín
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Singer, Joaquín
contents Hadwiger's conjecture in convex geometry, formulated in 1957, states that every convex body in $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be covered by $2^n$ translations of its interior. Despite significant efforts, the best known bound related to this problem was $\mathcal{O}(4^n \sqrt{n} \log n)$ for more than sixty years. In 2021, Huang, Slomka, Tkocz, and Vritsiou made a major breakthrough by improving the estimate by a factor of $\exp\left(Ω(\sqrt{n})\right)$. Further, for $ψ_2$ bodies they proved that at most $\exp(-Ω(n))\cdot4^n$ translations of its interior are needed to cover it. Through a probabilistic approach we show that the bound $\exp(-Ω(n))\cdot4^n$ can be obtained for convex bodies with sufficiently many well-behaved sub-gaussian marginals. Using a small diameter approximation, we present how the currently best known bound for the general case, due to Campos, Van Hintum, Morris, and Tiba can also be deduced from our results.
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spellingShingle Hadwiger's problem for bodies with enough sub-Gaussian marginals
Galicer, Daniel
Singer, Joaquín
Metric Geometry
Functional Analysis
52C17, 52A23, 52A40 (primary), 52A38, 52A20 (secondary)
Hadwiger's conjecture in convex geometry, formulated in 1957, states that every convex body in $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be covered by $2^n$ translations of its interior. Despite significant efforts, the best known bound related to this problem was $\mathcal{O}(4^n \sqrt{n} \log n)$ for more than sixty years. In 2021, Huang, Slomka, Tkocz, and Vritsiou made a major breakthrough by improving the estimate by a factor of $\exp\left(Ω(\sqrt{n})\right)$. Further, for $ψ_2$ bodies they proved that at most $\exp(-Ω(n))\cdot4^n$ translations of its interior are needed to cover it. Through a probabilistic approach we show that the bound $\exp(-Ω(n))\cdot4^n$ can be obtained for convex bodies with sufficiently many well-behaved sub-gaussian marginals. Using a small diameter approximation, we present how the currently best known bound for the general case, due to Campos, Van Hintum, Morris, and Tiba can also be deduced from our results.
title Hadwiger's problem for bodies with enough sub-Gaussian marginals
topic Metric Geometry
Functional Analysis
52C17, 52A23, 52A40 (primary), 52A38, 52A20 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14381