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A counterexample to the Macbeath point inclusion

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Kaiwen Jin

The center of a largest centrally symmetric subset of a convex body need not satisfy the usual dimension bound on asymmetry. We compute this center for a square pyramid in $\mathbb R^3$ and show that reflection about it, followed by shrinking by a factor of three, takes the apex outside the pyramid. This gives a counterexample to Ivanov's Macbeath point inclusion conjecture.

Claims

SOLUTION CLAIMED OP-00808 — Asymmetry at the Macbeath point of a convex body
Counterexample · fidelity not yet established

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Paper
AIM @ 24edaad, paper/macbeath_counterexample.pdf ↗
Posted on GitHub
13 October 2026

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