On the Borsuk number of four-dimensional sets

Borsuk conjectured that every n-dimensional bounded set of positive diameter can be partitioned into n+1 sets of smaller diameters. This conjecture was proved for n=2 by Borsuk, for n=3 first by Eggleston, and disproved for n > 297 by Hinrichs and Richer. It is not known if the conjecture holds for 3 < n < 298. The best upper bound for the number of subsets of smaller diameters a four-dimensional set can be partitioned into is nine. This estimate was given by Lassak in 1982. In this note we improve this estimate by one.

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