A generalization of Bang’s lemma

Abstract

We prove a common extension of Bang’s and Kadets’ lemmas for contact pairs, in the spirit of the Colourful Carathéodory Theorem. We also formulate a generalized version of the affine plank problem and prove it under special assumptions. In particular, we obtain a generalization of Kadets’ theorem. Finally, we give applications to problems regarding translative and homothetic coverings.