Pansu's isoperimetric conjecture for the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group
Pansu's isoperimetric conjecture for the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group
Let be the Heisenberg group with its sub-Riemannian Carnot–Carathéodory metric. Let be a surface enclosing a region , let denote Haar measure, and let denote sub-Riemannian surface area. The isoperimetric ratio is . Pansu's conjecture. For every such surface,
with equality if and only if is, up to dilation and translation, the Pansu bubble set. Equivalently, the bubble set is the unique isoperimetrix. Pansu constructed the bubble set as the surface formed by geodesics from the origin to ; it is a topological sphere with a Legendrian foliation by geodesics and constant mean curvature. The conjecture asserts that it solves the sub-Riemannian isoperimetric problem. Its resolution status is unclear from the supplied source context.
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Ayla P. Sánchez, “Sub-Finsler Heisenberg Perimeter Measures”, arXiv:1711.01585 (2017).
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