Heilbronn problem in a fixed bounding box (AlphaEvolve problem 48)
Heilbronn problem in a fixed bounding box (AlphaEvolve problem 48). Current research status is unassessed; the repository records AlphaEvolve’s result on this question.
Editorial MSC2020 classification. Original article codes and source evidence are recorded in the literature directory.
Problem statement
For any and any convex body in the plane, let be the largest quantity such that in every configuration of points in , there exists a triple of points determining a triangle of area at most times the area of . Establish upper and lower bounds on .
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Background
Repository result category: world record — AlphaEvolve improved on the best known result recorded at the time. See Section 6.29 in "Mathematical Exploration and Discovery at Scale " paper: arXiv:2511.02864.
Progress & source assessment
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- [1]Georgiev, Bogdan; Gómez-Serrano, Javier; Tao, Terence; Wagner, Adam Zsolt. Repository of problems accompanying “Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale” (arXiv:2511.02864), github.com/google-deepmind/alphaevolve_repository_of_problems (commit 8f44745, 11 July 2026). — Heilbronn problem in a fixed bounding box (AlphaEvolve problem 48) linkApache-2.0 (repository license); problem pages reproduced with attribution.
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