Viterbo's volume-capacity conjecture for convex domains

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Let cc be a symplectic capacity and let X⊂R2nX\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 90∘90^\circ rotation, so the conjecture is false in general. Its restriction to Lagrangian products K×LK∘K\times_L K^{\circ} of centrally symmetric convex bodies remains an open question and is connected to Mahler's conjecture.

References

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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