Directional isoperimetric conjecture for cycles in Euclidean space

Let zz be a closed kk-cycle in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. For an mm-tuple JJ of distinct coordinate indices, let P(J)P(J) be the coordinate mm-plane spanned by the corresponding axes, and let VolJ(C)\operatorname{Vol}_J(C) denote the geometric-multiplicity volume of the projection of an mm-chain CC to P(J)P(J). Suppose that zz bounds a (k+1)(k+1)-chain yy with y=z\partial y=z.

Directional isoperimetric conjecture. There is such a (k+1)(k+1)-chain yy for which, for every (k+1)(k+1)-tuple II,

VolI(y)C(n)[JIVolJ(z)]1k.\operatorname{Vol}_I(y) \leq C(n)\left[\prod_{J\subset I}\operatorname{Vol}_J(z)\right]^{\frac{1}{k}}.

This would generalize the Loomis–Whitney directional estimate and refine the Federer–Fleming isoperimetric inequality by controlling each directional volume of a filling in terms of the directional volumes of the boundary cycle. The source presents this as a natural conjecture; no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Larry Guth, “Directional isoperimetric inequalities and rational homotopy invariants”, arXiv:0802.3549 (2008).

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