Barthe's symmetric Gaussian surface-area minimizer conjecture

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Fix 0<c<10<c<1. For subsets Ω⊆Rn+1\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n+1} satisfying

Ω=−Ω,γn+1(Ω)=c,\Omega=-\Omega,\qquad \gamma_{n+1}(\Omega)=c,

consider the Gaussian surface area

∫∂Ωγn(x) dx.\int_{\partial\Omega}\gamma_n(x)\,dx.

Barthe's conjecture. If Ω\Omega minimizes this quantity, then, after a rotation, there exist r>0r>0 and 0≤k≤n0\leq k\leq n such that

∂Ω=rSk×Rn−k.\partial\Omega=rS^k\times\mathbb{R}^{n-k}.

This asserts that solid round cylinders, including the relevant limiting cases and their complements, minimize Gaussian surface area among symmetric sets of prescribed Gaussian measure. The paper presents this as an open conjecture.

References

Primary source

Steven Heilman, “Symmetric Convex Sets with Minimal Gaussian Surface Area”, arXiv:1705.06643 (2021).

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