Isoperimetric conjecture on the three-dimensional cube
Isoperimetric conjecture on the three-dimensional cube
Let and let
be the three-dimensional rectangular cube with its uniform probability measure. Write for relative volume, and let be chosen so that each listed set has relative volume .
Isoperimetric conjecture on the three-dimensional cube. For every , at least one of the following sets or its complement is an isoperimetric minimizer in of relative volume : an eighth ball around a vertex, a quarter cylinder around the short edge , or a half-plane .
This is widely believed and has been described as one of the nicest open problems in classical geometry. The paper notes that only relative volumes near , , and were previously established by compactness arguments, while its results prove the conjecture in additional ranges, including the standard cube for .
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Emanuel Milman, “Isoperimetric Inequalities on Slabs with applications to Cubes and Gaussian Slabs”, arXiv:2403.06602 (2025).
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