The strong Atiyah–Sutcliffe conjecture

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Let D ⁣:Confn(R3)CD\colon\operatorname{Conf}_n(\mathbb{R}^3)\to\mathbb{C} be the normalized determinant associated with the complex lines constructed from a configuration of points. Atiyah–Sutcliffe's strong conjecture. For every configuration (p1,,pn)(p_1,\dots,p_n),

D(p1,,pn)1.|D(p_1,\dots,p_n)|\geq1.

This stronger inequality implies the weak conjecture, since it implies D(p1,,pn)0D(p_1,\dots,p_n)\neq0. Numerical evidence supports it, and it is known for n4n\leq4 and for configurations of some special types, but it remains open in general.

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Lorenzo Guerra and Paolo Salvatore, “The Atiyah-Sutcliffe conjecture and E_n-algebras”, arXiv:2410.24124 (2024).

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