Existence of an extremizer for the proposed Mahler-volume lower bound

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Let n≥4n\geq 4, let KK be a symmetric convex set in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, let K∘K^{\circ} denote its polar body, and let α(n)\alpha(n) be the constant defined earlier in the source. The nn-dimensional volume is denoted by vol⁡n\operatorname{vol}_n, and Γ\Gamma is the Gamma function.

Existence conjecture. There is a symmetric convex set KK in Rn\mathbb{R}^n such that

vol⁡n(K)vol⁡n(K∘)=4α(n−1)πnΓ(n2)2.\operatorname{vol}_n(K)\operatorname{vol}_n(K^{\circ})=\frac{4\alpha(n-1)\pi^n}{\Gamma\left(\frac{n}{2}\right)^2}.

This conjecture asks whether the lower bound supplied by the paper's theorem is attained in every dimension n≥4n\geq 4. The source does not provide a resolution, and the notation α(n)\alpha(n) is defined elsewhere in the paper.

References

Primary source

Yashar Memarian, “A Lower Bound for the Mahler Volume of Symmetric Convex Sets”, arXiv:1501.02009 (2018).

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