Bourgain's slicing conjecture
Bourgain's slicing conjecture
For a convex body , define its covariance matrix by
and define
The isotropic constant satisfies .
Bourgain's slicing conjecture. There exists a constant independent of dimension such that
for all and all convex bodies . This is the slicing problem, equivalently a dimension-independent upper bound on the isotropic constant. The source presents it as Bourgain's conjecture and gives no resolution, so it remains open.
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Primary source
Bo Berndtsson, Vlassis Mastrantonis and Yanir A. Rubinstein, “L^p-polarity, Mahler volumes, and the isotropic constant”, arXiv:2304.14363 (2023).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1811.00345.
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