Várilly-Alvarado and Vakil's density-function conjecture for scrollar invariants

For xRd1x\in\mathbb{R}^{d-1}, let {Bi(x)}\{B_i(x)\} be open balls containing xx whose radii converge to zero, and define

ρgeo(x)=limiπgeo(Bi(x)),\rho^{\textnormal{geo}}(x)=\lim_{i\to\infty}\pi^{\textnormal{geo}}(B_i(x)),

where the limit is taken whenever the geometric limiting measure exists. Define ρgr\rho^{\textnormal{gr}} analogously using πgr\pi^{\textnormal{gr}}.

Várilly-Alvarado and Vakil's density-function conjecture. The quantities ρgeo(x)\rho^{\textnormal{geo}}(x) and ρgr(x)\rho^{\textnormal{gr}}(x) exist and are independent of the choice of {Bi(x)}\{B_i(x)\}. They satisfy

ρgeo=dimρgr.\rho^{\textnormal{geo}}=\dim\circ\rho^{\textnormal{gr}}.

Moreover, they are supported on a finite union of rational polytopes, are piecewise linear, and are continuous on their support. This conjecture concerns the local limiting density of scrollar-invariant strata and remains open in the setting discussed by the paper.

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Sam Frengley and Sameera Vemulapalli, “Tschirnhausen Bundles of Quintic Covers of P^1”, arXiv:2507.06942 (2025).

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