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Carbery's rectangle problem

Show that an open subset of the unit square with area α contains the corners of an axis-parallel rectangle of area at least cα².

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4+ "analysis",
5+ "combinatorics"
6+ ],
7+ "type": "proof",
8+ "source": {
9+ "key": "green-100",
10+ "name": "Ben Green's 100 open problems",
11+ "url": "https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/greenbj/papers/open-problems.pdf#problem.85",
12+ "id": "85",
13+ "curator": "Ben Green",
14+ "poser": "Anthony Carbery, Michael Christ and James Wright",
15+ "status": "open",
16+ "as_of": "2026-10-20",
17+ "catalog": "0521c19bbd38"
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