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Keller's conjecture

Keller's conjecture proper noun: the conjecture that, in any tiling of n-dimensional Euclidean space by identical hypercubes, there are two hypercubes that share an entire (n − 1)-dimensional face with each other.

Proper noun

Keller's conjecture

  1. The conjecture that, in any tiling of n-dimensional Euclidean space by identical hypercubes, there are two hypercubes that share an entire (n − 1)-dimensional face with each other.

Origin of Keller's conjecture

The conjecture was introduced by Ott-Heinrich Keller (1930).

Questions about Keller's conjecture

What does Keller's conjecture mean?
Keller's conjecture means the conjecture that, in any tiling of n-dimensional Euclidean space by identical hypercubes, there are two hypercubes that share an entire (n − 1)-dimensional face with each other.
What part of speech is Keller's conjecture?
Keller's conjecture is a proper noun.

Words near Keller's conjecture in the dictionary

  1. Kellenbergers
  2. keller
  3. Keller graph
  4. Keller graphs
  5. keller synth
  6. Keller's conjecture
  7. kellerbier
  8. kellerbiers
  9. Kellerian
  10. Kellerman
  11. Kellermann

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