IMC 2023 · Problem 9

Day 230th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

We say that a real number VV is good if there exist two closed convex subsets XX, YY of the unit cube in R3\mathbb{R}^3, with volume VV each, such that for each of the three coordinate planes (that is, the planes spanned by any two of the three coordinate axes), the projections of XX and YY onto that plane are disjoint.

Find sup{VV is good}\sup\{V \mid V \text{ is good}\}.

Official solution

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Proposed by Josef Tkadlec and Arseniy Akopyan.