Numerical improvement conjecture for four-cell stratified sampling

Let v=(v1,v2,v3)\mathbf{v}=(v_1,v_2,v_3) satisfy v1<v2<v3v_1<v_2<v_3 with each vi[0,2]v_i\in[0,\sqrt{2}]. Let Ωv(4)\mathbf{\Omega}_{\mathbf{v}}^{(4)} be the associated four-cell partition, let PΩv(4)\mathcal{P}_{\mathbf{\Omega}_{\mathbf{v}}^{(4)}} denote a stratified point set from this partition, and let Pjit4\mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{jit4}} denote the four-point classical jittered-sampling set. Numerical improvement conjecture. There exists such a vector v\mathbf{v} for which

EL22(PΩv(4))<EL22(Pjit4)=0.01909.\mathbb{E}\,\mathcal{L}_2^2\left(\mathcal{P}_{\mathbf{\Omega}_{\mathbf{v}}^{(4)}}\right)<\mathbb{E}\,\mathcal{L}_2^2\left(\mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{jit4}}\right)=0.01909\ldots.

The claim is based only on numerical evidence; the authors report a partition with an estimated expected discrepancy of 0.01880.0188\ldots, but no proof is provided.

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Markus Kiderlen and Florian Pausinger, “Discrepancy of stratified samples from partitions of the unit cube”, arXiv:2008.12026 (2021).

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