The high-dimensional balanced non-group-balanced configuration conjecture
The high-dimensional balanced non-group-balanced configuration conjecture
Let a balanced discrete subset be one for which, for every and every distance , the set
either is empty or has centroid . Let be the rigid motions preserving . The set is group-balanced if, for every , its stabilizer in fixes only .
High-dimensional balanced non-group-balanced configuration conjecture. If is sufficiently large, then there exists a discrete subset of that is balanced but not group-balanced.
This conjecture predicts that the planar phenomenon does not persist in all dimensions: sufficiently high-dimensional Euclidean space should contain balanced configurations with additional stabilizer-fixed points. The source gives no resolution or specified threshold for “sufficiently large,” so the conjecture remains open.
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Primary source
Henry Cohn, Noam D. Elkies, Abhinav Kumar and Achill Schuermann, “Point configurations that are asymmetric yet balanced”, arXiv:0812.2579 (2012).
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