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Borsuk's conjecture fails in dimension nine

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Borsuk's conjecture fails in dimension nine. Constructs a compact subset of ℝ⁹ that cannot be covered by ten sets of strictly smaller diameter, disproving Borsuk's covering assertion already in dimension nine. The example consists of rank-one orthogonal projectors onto lines in ℝ⁴, with the Frobenius metric.

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LEVEL 1 A nine-dimensional counterexample to Borsuk's covering assertion

released 2026-09-23 | 3 theorems · 11 lemmas · 16 proofs · 7,664 words | PLAY LEVEL 1 » (pdf)

The compact set of rank-one orthogonal projectors on ℝ⁴, with the Frobenius metric, cannot be covered by ten sets of strictly smaller diameter. It therefore gives a counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture in dimension nine.

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