The equal-edge projection conjecture for cube projections

Let Cn=[0,1]n\operatorname{C}^n=[0,1]^n be the standard nn-dimensional cube, and let HH be a subspace. Consider the orthogonal projection of Cn\operatorname{C}^n onto HH. The edges of the cube are the coordinate-direction segments, whose projections are vectors in HH.

Equal-edge projection conjecture. The maximum volume of a projection of Cn\operatorname{C}^n onto a subspace is attained when the projections of all edges of the cube have the same length.

Several extremal cases are known, including dimensions and codimensions specified in the source, and the conjecture is motivated by the fact that known maximizers in those cases have equal-length projected coordinate vectors. The general assertion remains open in the source.

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Grigory Ivanov, “Tight frames and related geometric problems”, arXiv:1804.10055 (2019).

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