Algebraic ODP volume gap conjecture

Let (V,p)(V,p) be a non-smooth germ of an nn-dimensional klt singularity. For a valuation ν\nu centered at pp, let vol^(ν)\widehat{\operatorname{vol}}(\nu) denote its normalized volume. The ordinary double point (ODP) singularity is

i=1n+1xi2=0.\sum_{i=1}^{n+1}x_i^2=0.

Algebraic ODP volume gap conjecture. The infimum of the normalized volumes of valuations centered at pp satisfies

infνvol^(ν)2(n1)n,\inf_{\nu}\widehat{\operatorname{vol}}(\nu)\leq 2(n-1)^n,

with equality realized only by the ordinary double point singularity. This is the algebro-geometric analogue of the proposed volume-density gap for Ricci-flat Kähler cones; the source does not specify whether it has been resolved.

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Cristiano Spotti and Song Sun, “Explicit Gromov-Hausdorff compactifications of moduli spaces of Kähler-Einstein Fano manifolds”, arXiv:1705.00377 (2017).

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