A smaller sleeping bag for a baby snake

• By a sleeping bag for a baby snake in d dimensions we mean a subset of Rd which can cover, by rotation and translation, every curve of unit length. We construct sleeping bags which are smaller than any previously known in dimensions 3 and higher. In particular, we construct a three-dimensional sleeping bag of volume approximately 0.075803. For large d we construct d-dimensional sleeping bags with volume less than (cvlog d)d/d3d/2 for some constant c. To obtain the last result, we show that every curve of unit length in Rd lies between two parallel hyperplanes at distance at most C1d-3/2vlog d, for some constant c1.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics (hsv//eng)

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