The antipodal isoperimetric conjecture for the sphere

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Let n∈Nn \in \mathbb{N} with n≥2n \geq 2, and let μ\mu denote the nn-dimensional Hausdorff measure on Sn\mathbb{S}^n. Let A⊆Sn\mathcal{A} \subseteq \mathbb{S}^n be open and antipodal if A=−A\mathcal{A}=-\mathcal{A}. Let σ\sigma denote the boundary-size functional used in the isoperimetric problem. The antipodal isoperimetric conjecture. There exists a set B⊆Sn\mathcal{B} \subseteq \mathbb{S}^n such that μ(B)=μ(A)\mu(\mathcal{B})=\mu(\mathcal{A}), σ(B)≤σ(A)\sigma(\mathcal{B})\leq\sigma(\mathcal{A}), and

B={x∈Sn:∑i=1rxi2>a}\mathcal{B}=\left\{x\in\mathbb{S}^n:\sum_{i=1}^{r}x_i^2>a\right\}

for some r∈[n]r\in[n] and some a∈Ra\in\mathbb{R}. This is the isoperimetric problem for real projective space, equivalently for antipodal subsets of the sphere; it remains open in general.

References

Primary source

David Ellis and Imre Leader, “An isoperimetric inequality for antipodal subsets of the discrete cube”, arXiv:1609.04270 (2017).

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