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Lassak's Area Bound for Reduced Planar Bodies

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Precise statement

Lassak conjectured that a reduced planar convex body of thickness $\Delta$ has area at most $(\pi/4)\Delta^2$, the value for the disc. False: an explicit reduced body of thickness $1$ has area $0.786215\ldots > \pi/4 = 0.785398\ldots$, given by a closed-form support function.

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What AI did

GPT-5.5 Pro, Claude Opus 4.8

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Verification boundary

unreviewed

The counterexample is given by an explicit support function with the area stated to six decimal places, so the refutation reduces to evaluating a closed-form integral. Single-author arXiv preprint, not peer-reviewed.

Correctness: unknown · statement fidelity: unaudited · peer review: none

Timeline

  1. arXiv:2606.28612 - A reduced planar body with area greater than pi/4

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Known method families

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Source-reported tools: construction.

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What remains uncertain

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