Extremal configuration conjecture for c(d,d+1,d+1)c(d,d+1,d+1)

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Let c(d,n,k)c(d,n,k) denote the extremal signed-sum quantity studied in the paper, and let ωd+1\omega_{d+1} be the corresponding extremal vector configuration. For a linear subspace HRdH\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d, write HH^\perp for its orthogonal complement. Extremal configuration conjecture. For every d1d\geqslant1,

c(d,d+1,d+1)=d+2.c(d,d+1,d+1)=\sqrt{d+2}.

Moreover, equality is attained if and only if, up to sign changes, ωd+1\omega_{d+1} is the union of the vertex set of a regular simplex in an even-dimensional linear subspace HH, centered at the origin, and an orthonormal basis of HH^\perp. The source describes this as a conjecture already proved for d=2d=2; the general assertion remains open.

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Gergely Ambrus and Bernardo González Merino, “Large signed subset sums”, arXiv:2012.13164 (2022).

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