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

For every n2n\geq 2, let mnm_n be the integer defined by the construction in Theorem. Let (X,(1b)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

b1mn.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.

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

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