The regular simplex maximization conjecture for minimum projective distance

Let u0,,un\mathbf{u}_0,\dots,\mathbf{u}_n be unit vectors representing the vertices of a simplex in complex projective space, in general position, and let

D=det(u0,,un).D=|\det(\mathbf{u}_0,\dots,\mathbf{u}_n)|.

Let dmind_{\min} denote the minimum of the projective distances from the vertices to their opposite hyperplanes. Fix 0<D10<D\leq 1 and consider all configurations with this value of DD. Regular simplex conjecture. Among all such configurations, the configuration with the largest dmind_{\min} will be a regular simplex. The preceding theorem gives the bound dminnDd_{\min}^n\leq D, while equality of the relevant distances alone is not sufficient for equality; the conjecture identifies the regular simplex as the optimizer under fixed determinant magnitude.

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Mark Fincher, Heather Olney and William Cherry, “Some projective distance inequalities for simplices in complex projective space”, arXiv:1407.5850 (2014).

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