A family of unit balls with centres center is a covering of $\mathbb{R}^3$ when
every point is covered by at least one ball.
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A family of unit balls is decomposable if its index set can be partitioned into two classes $A$ and $A^c$ such that both subfamilies still cover $\mathbb{R}^3$.
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theorem
DecomposingCoverings.theorem_6_2_12
{ι : Type u_1}
(center : ι → E3)
(k : ℕ)
(hk : 2 ≤ k)
(hcov : IsKFoldCovering center k)
(hindec : ¬IsDecomposable center)
:
Theorem 6.2.12 (Mani-Levitska, Pach 1986). Any $k$-fold covering of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by unit balls that cannot be split into two coverings must cover some point at least $2^{k/3}$ times.