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A New Upper Bound for the Heilbronn Triangle Problem
October 09, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:
Conference Room 705
Rutgers University
Hill Center
110 Frelinghuysen Rd
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Cosmin Pohoata, Emory University
We discuss a new upper bound for the Heilbronn triangle problem, showing that for sufficiently large $n$ in every configuration of $n$ points chosen inside a unit square there exists a triangle of area less than $n^{-8/7-1/2000}$. This is joint work with Alex Cohen and Dmitrii Zakharov.