Monthly Archives: April 2022

Joshua Hinman proved Bárány’s conjecture on face numbers of polytopes, and Lei Xue proved a lower bound conjecture by Grünbaum.

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Joshua Hinman proved Bárány’s conjecture. One of my first posts on this blog was a 2008 post Five Open Problems Regarding Convex Polytopes, now 14 years later, I can tell you about the first problem on the list to get solved. … Continue reading →

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Amazing: Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham settled the expectation threshold conjecture!

Posted on April 2, 2022 by Gil Kalai

A brief summary: In the paper, A proof of the Kahn-Kalai conjecture, Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham proved the 2006 expectation threshold conjecture posed by Jeff Kahn and me. The proof is wonderful. Congratulations Jinyoung and Huy Tuan! Updates: … Continue reading →

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