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On the chromatic number of ℝ9

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In this work, the previous lower bound is considerably strengthened for the chromatic number of the nine-dimensional space.

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    A. B. Kupavskii & A. M. Raigorodskii

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Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 139–154, 2008.

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Kupavskii, A.B., Raigorodskii, A.M. On the chromatic number of ℝ9 . J Math Sci 163, 720–731 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-009-9708-4

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