Discrete surface-area conjecture for simplices

Let SS be a dd-simplex with the origin in its interior and with rational vertex directions. Let VolZd(S)\operatorname{Vol}_{\mathbb{Z}^d}(S) be normalized volume and let

SurfZd(S)=i=0dVolπi(Zd)(πi(S)),\operatorname{Surf}_{\mathbb{Z}^d}(S)=\sum_{i=0}^d\operatorname{Vol}_{\pi_i(\mathbb{Z}^d)}(\pi_i(S)),

where πi\pi_i is the linear projection vanishing at the iith vertex. The discrete surface-area conjecture.

μ(S)12SurfZd(S)VolZd(S).\mu(S)\leq\frac12\frac{\operatorname{Surf}_{\mathbb{Z}^d}(S)}{\operatorname{Vol}_{\mathbb{Z}^d}(S)}.

This is a discrete analogue of Hadwiger's covering inequality and is unimodularly invariant. It holds in dimension two and up to a factor of two in arbitrary dimension, but remains open in full generality.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Giulia Codenotti, Francisco Santos and Matthias Schymura, “The covering radius and a discrete surface area for non-hollow simplices”, arXiv:1903.02866 (2021).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.