Magnetic isoperimetric non-vanishing conjecture

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Let (Mm,g)(M^m,g) be a compact manifold with smooth boundary ∂M\partial M, and let η∈Ω1(M)\eta\in\Omega^1(M). Let BM\mathfrak{B}_M denote the relevant gauge-trivial subspace, and for an admissible open subset D⊂MD\subset M let ∂ID\partial_I D be its interior boundary and ιη(D)\iota^\eta(D) its magnetic isoperimetric quantity. Magnetic isoperimetric non-vanishing conjecture. If η∉BM\eta\notin\mathfrak{B}_M, then there exist ε,δ>0\varepsilon,\delta>0 such that every non-empty open subset D⊂MD\subset M with compact closure, smooth boundary, and

∣D∣≥(1−ε)∣M∣,∣∂ID∣≤ε|D|\ge (1-\varepsilon)|M|,\qquad |\partial_I D|\le\varepsilon

satisfies

ιη(D)≥δ.\iota^\eta(D)\ge\delta.

The conjecture would imply that the magnetic Cheeger constants remain strictly positive when the magnetic 11-form is not in BM\mathfrak{B}_M, making the corresponding Cheeger inequality nontrivial. The supplied text gives no proof or resolution.

References

Primary source

Tirumala Chakradhar, Katie Gittins, Georges Habib and Norbert Peyerimhoff, “A note on the magnetic Steklov operator on functions”, arXiv:2410.07462 (2025).

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