Kaczynski's logarithmic-area conjecture for unrestricted trapezoids

For the smallest unrestricted trapezoid area

α(n)=minσSym(n)μ2(Tσn),\alpha(n)=\min_{\sigma\in\operatorname{Sym}(n)}\mu_2(T^n_\sigma),

where TσnT^n_\sigma is the union of the parallelograms associated with σ\sigma, Kaczynski's logarithmic-area conjecture. there exist constants c±>0c_\pm>0 such that

clogn<α(n)<c+logn.\frac{c_-}{\log n}<\alpha(n)<\frac{c_+}{\log n}.

Kaczynski claimed that the lower-bound constant exists and gave a weaker upper bound; the source leaves this sharper two-sided estimate open.

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Primary source

Parker Kuklinski, “An uncountable union of line segments with null two-dimensional measure”, arXiv:2311.16210 (2023).

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