Alexander's sharp isoperimetric conjecture for minimal submanifolds

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Let ΣRn+m\Sigma\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+m} be an nn-dimensional smooth minimal submanifold with smooth boundary Σ\partial\Sigma. Write Σ|\Sigma| for its nn-dimensional volume, Σ|\partial\Sigma| for the (n1)(n-1)-dimensional volume of its boundary, and let BnB^n be the open unit ball in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Alexander's conjecture. The sharp inequality

ΣnBn1nΣn1n|\partial\Sigma|\geq n|B^n|^{\frac{1}{n}}|\Sigma|^{\frac{n-1}{n}}

holds, with equality if and only if Σ\Sigma is an nn-dimensional ball in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. This is the codimension-nonzero analogue of the Euclidean isoperimetric inequality; the source attributes it to Alexander, but the supplied text does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Wenkui Du, Yuchao Yi and Ziyi Zhao, “Wulff inequality for minimal submanifolds in Euclidean space”, arXiv:2412.19063 (2024).

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