Minimum-volume scaling conjecture for random triangulations of the d-sphere

Let Sn(d)\mathcal{S}^{(d)}_n be the set of nn-vertex triangulations of the dd-sphere, let M(Sn(d))M(\mathcal{S}^{(d)}_n) denote their minimum volume, and let μn(d)\mu^{(d)}_n be the median of this random variable. Minimum-volume scaling conjecture. For every d2d\geq 2 there is a constant cd>0c_d>0 such that

μn(d)=cdn11/d+o(n11/d).\mu^{(d)}_n = c_d n^{1-1/d} + o(n^{1-1/d}).

The conjecture asserts that the upper bound proved in the paper gives the correct asymptotic order and leading constant form. It is open even for d=2d=2; in that case the available bounds constrain c2c_2 to an explicit interval.

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Agelos Georgakopoulos, John Haslegrave and Joel Larsson Danielsson, “Random triangulations of the d-sphere with minimum volume”, arXiv:2409.00235 (2024).

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