Gromov's Uryson width conjecture for smooth domains

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

HXn1.H_{\partial X}\geq n-1.

Gromov's conjecture. There should exist a continuous self-map R:XXR:X\to X such that R(X)R(X) has topological dimension n2n-2 and

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

for every xXx\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.

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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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