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,b12c.c<1,\qquad a+b+2c=2,\qquad a,b\geq 1-2c.

For a sequence of polytopes PnRnP_n\subset\mathbb{R}^n, write VnV_n and Fn\mathcal{F}_n for its vertices and facets, and let rnB2nPnRnB2nr_nB_2^n\subset P_n\subset R_nB_2^n. FLM exponent sufficiency conjecture. There exists a sequence of polytopes PnRnP_n\subset\mathbb{R}^n such that

logVnna,logFnnb,(Rnrn)2n2c.\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,b12ca,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.

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

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