Gromov's Uryson width conjecture for smooth domains

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Let X⊂RnX\subset\mathbb{R}^n be a smooth domain whose boundary has mean curvature satisfying

H∂X≥n−1.H_{\partial X}\geq n-1.

Gromov's conjecture. There should exist a continuous self-map R:X→XR:X\to X such that R(X)R(X) has topological dimension n−2n-2 and

dist⁡(x,R(x))≤cn\operatorname{dist}(x,R(x))\leq c_n

for every x∈Xx\in X, with the best expected constant cn=1c_n=1. This conjecture predicts a codimension-two retraction at uniformly bounded distance and is related to upper bounds for the Uryson 11-width of mean-convex domains. The source paper proves an upper bound for the relevant three-dimensional class, but the general conjecture stated here is not identified as resolved.

References

Primary source

Zhichao Wang and Bo Zhu, “Uryson width of three dimensional mean convex domain with non-negative Ricci curvature”, arXiv:2109.12715 (2021).

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