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Erdős problem 505

Erdős Problem 505 (disproved). Borsuk's conjecture is false for sufficiently large nn: there exists a dimension nn and a bounded set S⊆RnS \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n with positive diameter such that SS cannot be covered by n+1n + 1 subsets each of diameter strictly less than diam⁡(S)\operatorname{diam}(S).

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Problem row
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Metadata
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Observation
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Repository
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Projection
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