Petty's conjecture on equilateral sets in normed spaces

Let (X,)(X,\|\cdot\|) be a normed space of dimension nn. A set SXS\subseteq X is equilateral if there is a constant c>0c>0 such that xy=c\|x-y\|=c for all distinct x,ySx,y\in S, and let e(X)e(X) denote the largest cardinality of an equilateral set in XX.

Petty's conjecture. For all normed spaces XX of dimension nn,

e(X)n+1.e(X)\geq n+1.

The conjecture gives a general lower bound for equilateral sets in finite-dimensional normed spaces. It is known in dimension at most four, while for n5n\geq 5 it remains open except for some special classes of norms.

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Primary source

Nora Frankl, “Large equilateral sets in subspaces of _^n of small codimension”, arXiv:2005.04256 (2020).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1811.04783.

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