Integral Fejes Tóth conjecture for projective spaces

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Let Sd\mathbb S^d be the unit sphere, let θ(x,y)\theta(x,y) be the geodesic angle, and for a Borel probability measure μ\mu define

I1(μ)=SdSdθ(x,y)dμ(x)dμ(y).I_1(\mu)=\int_{\mathbb S^d}\int_{\mathbb S^d}\theta(x,y)\,d\mu(x)\,d\mu(y).

For an orthonormal basis {ei}i=1d+1\{e_i\}_{i=1}^{d+1} of Rd+1\mathbb R^{d+1}, set

μONB=1d+1i=1d+1δei.\mu_{ONB}=\frac{1}{d+1}\sum_{i=1}^{d+1}\delta_{e_i}.

Integral Fejes Tóth conjecture. The maximum of I1(μ)I_1(\mu) over all Borel probability measures on Sd\mathbb S^d is achieved by μONB\mu_{ONB}. The discrete conjecture remains open for d>1d>1, and this continuous analogue is likewise not established in the stated generality; in projective-space terminology it is equivalent to the phase-transition assertion s=1s^*=-1 for RPd\mathbb{RP}^d.

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Dmitriy Bilyk, Ryan W. Matzke and Joel Nathe, “Geodesic Distance Riesz Energy on Projective Spaces”, arXiv:2409.16508 (2024).

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