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Covering the Cube by Affine Hyperplanes

✍ Scribed by Noga Alon; Zoltán Füredi


Book ID
102570370
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
147 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0195-6698

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✦ Synopsis


One can easily cover the vertices of the (n)-cube by 2 hyperplanes. Here it is proved that any set of hyperplanes that covers all the vertices of the (n)-cube but one contains at least (n) hyperplanes. We give a variety of proofs and generalizations.


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