Kahn-Kalai counterexample to the Borsuk conjecture

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Kahn-Kalai counterexample to the Borsuk conjecture by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Kahn and Kalai represented uniform subsets by quadratic sign vectors so that diameter pairs correspond to one forbidden intersection size. The Frankl-Wilson theorem bounds each smaller-diameter part, forcing exponentially many parts while the ambient dimension grows only quadratically.

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