Viterbo's volume-capacity conjecture for convex domains

Let cc be a symplectic capacity and let XR2nX\subset\mathbb{R}^{2n} be a convex domain. Write Vol(X)\operatorname{Vol}(X) for the Euclidean volume of XX. Viterbo's conjecture. For every symplectic capacity cc,

cn(X)n!Vol(X).c^n(X)\leq n!\operatorname{Vol}(X).

Haim-Kislev and Ostrover provided a counterexample using the Hofer–Zehnder capacity for the Lagrangian product of a regular pentagon and its 9090^\circ rotation, so the conjecture is false in general. Its restriction to Lagrangian products K×LKK\times_L K^{\circ} of centrally symmetric convex bodies remains an open question and is connected to Mahler's conjecture.

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Primary source

Alejandro Vicente, “The strong Viterbo conjecture and various flavours of duality in Lagrangian products”, arXiv:2505.07572 (2025).

Additional references

9 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2405.16513, arXiv:2405.18067, arXiv:2311.02870, arXiv:2303.12752, arXiv:2206.07847, arXiv:2106.07920, arXiv:1909.08967, arXiv:1812.03039.

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