The lower-bound conjecture for the first gap of global log canonical thresholds

About 3 years old · traced to

For every n≥2n\geq 2, let mnm_n be the integer defined by the construction in Theorem. Let (X,(1−b)S)(X,(1-b)S) be a complex klt Calabi–Yau pair of dimension nn, where SS is a nonzero effective Weil divisor. First-gap conjecture. One has

b≥1mn.b\geq \frac{1}{m_n}.

The paper constructs examples with b=1/mnb=1/m_n, so the conjecture would identify the first gap in this setting and establish optimality of the construction. It remains open.

References

Primary source

Louis Esser and Burt Totaro, “Log canonical pairs with conjecturally minimal volume”, arXiv:2308.08034 (2026).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.