Improved bounds for Hadwiger covering problem via the thin shell estimates

Series
High Dimensional Seminar
Time
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Speaker
Han Huang – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Galyna Livshyts

Let $K$ be a n dimensional convex body with of volume $1$. and barycenter of $K$ is the origin.  It is known that $|K \cap -K|>2^{-n}$.  Via thin shell estimate by Lee-Vempala (earlier versions were done by Guedon-Milman, Fleury, Klartag), we improve the bound by a sub-exponential factor.  Furthermore, we can improve  the Hadwiger’s Conjecture in the non-symmetric case by a sub-exponential factor.  This is a joint work with Boaz A. Slomka, Tomasz Tkocz, and Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou.