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When I formulate the Borsuk conjecture in the form of a coloring problem, Aigner told me that the formulation is not quite correct: It only works if the set is finite. He's right.

All the constructions for counter-examples to Borsuk conjecture use finite set (thanks to Larman's conjecture?). It seems to me that we might obtain infinite counter-examples from them by, for example, taking convex hulls. Am I right?

So what do we known about the existence of infinite counter-examples from the existence of finite counter-examples, and vice versa? Can we somehow use de Brujin–Erdős Theorem? Is it possible that, in some dimensions, only infinite counter-examples exist?

According to Wikipedia, Borsuk conjecture is known to be true for smooth convex bodies, centrally-symmetric bodies and evolution bodies.

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  • $\begingroup$ It's strange that for the smooth convex bodies the proof of the Borsuk's conjecture is easy (Hadwiger's result) while the finite case is so dramatically wrong. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 12, 2015 at 6:46

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