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Disputed Statements

Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.

1 statement marked Debunked.

Hirsch Conjecture, Progress Toward ResolutionThe conjecture was disproved in May 2010, when Francisco Santos Leal of the University of Cantabria announced a 43-dimensional counterexample polytope of 86 facets with a diameter of more than 43.

Hirsch Conjecture, Conjectures

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Concerns Progress Toward Resolution

Currently States The conjecture was disproved in May 2010, when Francisco Santos Leal of the University of Cantabria announced a 43-dimensional counterexample polytope of 86 facets with a diameter of more than 43.

Source Hirsch Conjecture (Wikipedia)