Covering product conjecture

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Let KK be a convex body in Rn\mathbb{R}^n and let Λ\Lambda be a lattice in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Let μi(K,Λ)\mu_i(K,\Lambda) denote the covering minima.

Covering product conjecture. One has

n+12n∏i=1n1μi(K,Λ)≤vol⁡(K)det⁡(Λ),\frac{n+1}{2^n}\prod_{i=1}^n\frac{1}{\mu_i(K,\Lambda)}\leq\frac{\operatorname{vol}(K)}{\det(\Lambda)},

and this bound is best possible.

The conjecture is presented as a covering-minima analogue of the volume inequalities for packing minima and is attributed to the cited work. Its validity is not resolved in the source.

References

Primary source

Martin Henk, Matthias Schymura and Fei Xue, “Packing minima and lattice points in convex bodies”, arXiv:2005.02234 (2020).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1903.02866.

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