Extension of norms from subsets of integer vectors

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Let G⊆Z3∖{0}G\subseteq\mathbb Z^3\setminus\{0\}, and suppose that a function ∥⋅∥:G→R≥0\lVert\cdot\rVert:G\to\mathbb R_{\geq 0} satisfies ∥g∥>0\lVert g\rVert>0 for every g∈Gg\in G and, whenever

g=∑h∈Gλhhg=\sum_{h\in G}\lambda_hh

with finitely many nonzero λh∈R\lambda_h\in\mathbb R, satisfies

∥g∥≤∑h∈G∣λh∣ ∥h∥.\lVert g\rVert\leq\sum_{h\in G}|\lambda_h|\,\lVert h\rVert.

Norm-extension conjecture. Then ∥⋅∥\lVert\cdot\rVert is the restriction to GG of a norm on Z3\mathbb Z^3.

The conjecture concerns extending prescribed values on a subset of integer vectors to a norm-induced metric. The source introduces it as a proposed generalization beyond the fixed 11-norm setting; no resolution is supplied.

References

Primary source

Oliver Clarke and Dimitra Kosta, “Distance Reducing Markov Bases”, arXiv:2406.17730 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1209.3388.

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