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.
References
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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