The small-cube conjecture for transitive sets

Let XX be a finite transitive subset of the unit sphere in Rd\mathbb{R}^d or Cd\mathbb{C}^d. A unitary basis LL is a basis whose vectors are orthonormal with respect to the relevant real or complex inner product. Write v,x\langle \mathbf{v},\mathbf{x}\rangle for the inner product.

Small-cube conjecture. There is a unitary basis LL such that

supxX,vLv,x1logd.\sup_{\mathbf{x}\in X,\mathbf{v}\in L}|\langle \mathbf{v},\mathbf{x}\rangle|\lesssim \frac{1}{\sqrt{\log d}}.

This conjecture proposes a coordinate system in which every point of every finite transitive set has uniformly small coordinates. The source presents it as a closely related conjecture; no resolution is supplied.

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Primary source

Ashwin Sah, Mehtaab Sawhney and Yufei Zhao, “The cylindrical width of transitive sets”, arXiv:2101.11207 (2021).

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