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Gruber P. Convex and Discrete Geometry

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33 Optimum Quantization 493<br />

set with V (J) >0 <strong>and</strong> let Sn ={sn1,...,snn} ⊆J, n = 1, 2,...,be minimizing<br />

configurations for I (J, 2, n). Then the corresponding Dirichlet–Voronoĭ cells<br />

Dni ={x :�x − sni� ≤�x − snj� for j = 1,...,n}<br />

are asymptotically congruent to � V (J)/n � 1/d Pasn→∞.<br />

This conjecture has so far been proved only for d = 2, where it is an immediate<br />

consequence of the weak stability result mentioned earlier. The convex polytope P<br />

then is a regular hexagon. The conjecture also follows from the result of Fejes Tóth<br />

[321]. Assertions in the literature that it is a consequence of earlier results are not<br />

justified.<br />

While for dimensions d > 2 Gersho’s conjecture is open, weaker results on<br />

what Sn looks like have been proved by <strong>Gruber</strong> [443]: Let J, f,wbe as earlier, such<br />

that f is from a certain class of non-decreasing functions, the boundary of J is not<br />

too fuzzy <strong>and</strong> w has a positive lower bound. Let Sn, n = 1, 2,..., be minimizing<br />

configurations for the expression in (24) for the Euclidean norm or in (25). Then:<br />

(i) There is a β>1 such that Sn is a � 1/βn 1/d ,β/n 1/d� -Delone set in J.<br />

(ii) Sn is uniformly distributed in J.<br />

For the definition of a Delone set in J, compare Sect. 32.1. The sequence of sets (Sn)<br />

is uniformly distributed in J, if<br />

#(K ∩ Sn) ∼<br />

V (K )<br />

n as n →∞for each Jordan measurable set K ⊆ J.<br />

V (J)<br />

That is, each K contains the appropriate share of points of Sn if n is sufficiently large.<br />

For more on uniform distribution see Hlawka [515].<br />

Heuristic Observations<br />

If a convex body is optimal or almost optimal with respect to an inequality, then, in<br />

many cases, it is particularly regular or symmetric in a certain sense. See Groemer’s<br />

survey [403] on geometric stability results.<br />

The weak stability result for point configurations <strong>and</strong> its applications are also<br />

examples of this phenomenon, see the surveys [439, 442, 443]. Results on packing<br />

<strong>and</strong> covering of circular discs with maximum, respectively, minimum density <strong>and</strong><br />

Gersho’s conjecture are further examples of this, see [436, 438] <strong>and</strong> Sects. 30.4 <strong>and</strong><br />

31.4. In all these cases the extremal configurations are point configurations which<br />

are distributed over subsets of E d or Riemannian manifolds in a rather regular way.<br />

More generally, we express this as follows:<br />

Heuristic Principle. In many simple situations, for example in low dimensions<br />

or depending on few parameters, the extremal configurations are rather regular,<br />

possibly in an asymptotic sense.

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