Sharpness of the antichain Hausdorff measure bound

Let n3n\geq 3, and let an nn-cube antichain be a subset of [0,1]n[0,1]^n containing no distinct points x,y\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y} with xiyix_i\leq y_i for every ii. Write Hn1\mathcal{H}^{n-1} for (n1)(n-1)-dimensional Hausdorff measure, and let

σn=2nΓ(n/2+1)πn/2.\sigma_n=\frac{2^{n}\Gamma(n/2+1)}{\pi^{n/2}}.

Sharpness conjecture. For every n3n\geq 3, there exists an nn-cube antichain SS such that

Hn1(S)=nσn1.\mathcal{H}^{n-1}(S)=n\sigma_{n-1}.

The smooth-surface result shows that the upper bound nσn1n\sigma_{n-1} is asymptotically sharp. This conjecture asks whether the bound is attained exactly in every dimension n3n\geq 3, and remains open.

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Konrad Engel, Themis Mitsis and Christos Pelekis, “A fractal perspective on optimal antichains and intersecting subsets of the unit n-cube”, arXiv:1707.04856 (2017).

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