First-order magnitude conjecture for small convex bodies in hypermetric normed spaces

Let E=(Rn,)E=(\mathbb{R}^n,\left\Vert\cdot\right\Vert) be a hypermetric normed space, and let KKnK\in\mathcal{K}^n, the family of compact convex bodies in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Let μ1E(K)\mu_1^E(K) denote the first Holmes–Thompson intrinsic volume of KK in EE. First-order magnitude conjecture.

limt0+Mag(tK,)1t=14μ1E(K).\lim_{t\to0^+}\frac{\operatorname{Mag}\left(tK,\left\Vert\cdot\right\Vert\right)-1}{t}=\frac14\mu_1^E(K).

This asserts that the upper bounds for magnitude established earlier in the paper are sharp to first order as t0+t\to0^+. It generalizes a conjecture for the Euclidean case; the limit is known when E=2nE=\ell_2^n, nn is odd, and KK has smooth boundary, while the conjecture is open in the other cases.

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Primary source

Mark W. Meckes, “Magnitude and Holmes-Thompson intrinsic volumes of convex bodies”, arXiv:2206.02600 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1904.08923.

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