A bundling problem revisited

TL;DR

This paper challenges a previous conjecture by showing that animals do not always gather to minimize individual heat loss, providing a counterexample to an earlier proven hypothesis.

Contribution

It demonstrates that the assumption linking animal gathering to minimized heat loss does not always hold, offering a counterexample to a well-known conjecture.

Findings

Counterexample disproves the conjecture

Animals do not always gather to minimize heat loss

Challenges previous assumptions in heat loss models

Abstract

It was conjectured by M. Glasser and S. Davison and later proved by A. Eremenko that the certain animals should gather close to each other in order to decrease the total heat loss. In this paper we show that it is not always true for the individual heat loss. This gives a negative answer to a question posed by A. Eremenko.