Interior-point conjecture for wedges generated by horizontal half-spaces

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Let G{\mathbb G} be a Carnot group and let WW be a horizontal half-space. Denote by SWS_W the semigroup generated by WW, by SˉW\bar S_W its closure, by wSˉW\mathfrak w_{\bar S_W} the wedge tangent to SˉW\bar S_W, and by Int⁡(SW)\operatorname{Int}(S_W) the interior of SWS_W. Interior-point conjecture. For every horizontal half-space WW in every Carnot group G{\mathbb G},

exp⁡(wSˉW)∩Int⁡(SW)≠∅.\exp(\mathfrak w_{\bar S_W})\cap \operatorname{Int}(S_W)\neq\emptyset.

There is evidence that the intersection is nonempty in Carnot groups of step at most 44; whether this holds in general remains open.

References

Primary source

Costante Bellettini and Enrico Le Donne, “Sets with constant normal in Carnot groups: properties and examples”, arXiv:1910.12117 (2019).

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