Sufficiency of the FLM inequality's necessary exponent condition

Let a,b,c>0a,b,c>0 and suppose

c<1,a+b+2c=2,a,b≥1−2c.c<1,\qquad a+b+2c=2,\qquad a,b\geq 1-2c.

For a sequence of polytopes Pn⊂RnP_n\subset\mathbb{R}^n, write VnV_n and Fn\mathcal{F}_n for its vertices and facets, and let rnB2n⊂Pn⊂RnB2nr_nB_2^n\subset P_n\subset R_nB_2^n. FLM exponent sufficiency conjecture. There exists a sequence of polytopes Pn⊂RnP_n\subset\mathbb{R}^n such that

log⁡∣Vn∣∼na,log⁡∣Fn∣∼nb,(Rnrn)2∼n2c.\log|V_n|\sim n^a,\qquad \log|\mathcal{F}_n|\sim n^b,\qquad \left(\frac{R_n}{r_n}\right)^2\sim n^{2c}.

The inequalities a,b≥1−2ca,b\geq 1-2c are necessary consequences of the classical FLM lower bounds and the relation a+b+2c=2a+b+2c=2; the conjecture asserts that these conditions are also sufficient. The claim concerns the unresolved tightness of the general FLM inequality outside the cases settled earlier in the paper.

References

Primary source

Tomer Milo, “On the Figiel-Lindenstrauss-Milman inequality”, arXiv:2504.13571 (2025).

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