Smallest minimal log discrepancy conjecture for exceptional Fano varieties

Let sns_n be the nnth Sylvester number, and let n2n\geq 2 be an integer. For even nn, the candidate value is

4(sn1)sn39sn.\frac{4(s_n-1)}{s_n^3-9s_n}.

For odd nn, the candidate value is

4(sn3)sn319sn+14.\frac{4(s_n-3)}{s_n^3-19s_n+14}.

Smallest minimal log discrepancy conjecture. For any even (respectively, odd) integer n2n\geq 2, the smallest minimal log discrepancy of an exceptional Fano variety of dimension nn is

4(sn1)sn39sn(respectively 4(sn3)sn319sn+14).\frac{4(s_n-1)}{s_n^3-9s_n}\left(\text{respectively }\frac{4(s_n-3)}{s_n^3-19s_n+14}\right).

The paper constructs exceptional Fano hypersurfaces attaining these values in every dimension, and conjectures that they are optimal among all exceptional Fano varieties of the same dimension. The conjectured minimum is asymptotic to 4/sn24/s_n^2, hence decreases doubly exponentially with nn; the general optimal lower bound remains open.

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Louis Esser, Jihao Liu and Chengxi Wang, “Exceptional Fano varieties with small minimal log discrepancy”, arXiv:2406.03570 (2024).

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